Strategical maps of Monte Cassino

Hello everybody,

i´m looking since a long time for some maps where the positions of the German 1.Fallschirmjäger-Divison are in. And especially i´m looking for maps which do have the positions down to Regimental or better down to a companies level.
I would be glad, if anybody own such a map and is willing to share, or has a advice where to get it!

Thank you in advance!

 

Ulrich it came to mind former senior Offizier may have a few in his long out of print title that he did on his service:

Major Rudolf Böhmler formerly of I./Fallschirm Rgt 3. RK 26.03.1944. not sure of his title but should be found in a number of German Antiquity Buch shops

 

I am at a complete loss. I can not remember where I found some of these. They were online at one time.
It may have been on the now regrettably defunct BattleOfMonteCassino.com website... but I think I remember them being pointed out by a veteran I visited in Tyrol in 2004.
Likely a german website. I will try to remember... but I have run out of steam today.

FYI: Good German Video of training operations of the famous Fallschirmjäger German Paratroopers.

[video=youtube;DBc41_f8eZI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBc41_f8eZI[/video]

 

Thank you to both of you!

The video showed some of the olive coloured parachutes which caused some losses for the reason that the impregnation glued the silk together and the poor guys had nothing than a lump of silk that won´t open. Not a fine way to die.

 

Sigh. Still struggling with this. Bound and determined to remember. But no luck yet with German Military Maps.

I suggest that your best avenue would be to troll through those Google Books that have free previews, secondly try inter library loans.

Did find a couple from the Irish Brigade, though not much use: Irish Brigade - Battlefield Maps: May / June 1944

A Polish Map. Zoom in for more detail... http://kresy-siberia.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=16150

American Maps, page 34 on... at Google Books preview of Cassino 1944, Breaking the Gustov Line

Life Magazine page 30... does a good job of identifying Allied battle landmarks.

as I recall the German ones were no more detailed.

 

Fred, no matter it is interesting stuff too! Maybe you´ll find some and thank you very much for your efforts to do so!!!

 

Map of Italy, Anzio-Cassino Region, 1944 January 17 - February 19, 1944
Map of Italy, Anzio-Cassino Region, May 1944 May 11 - 30, 1944

 

Thank you Fred! It shows somesthing to me.