319th Static Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

319th Static Infantry Division

319th Division insignia.
Active 15 November 1940 – 8 May 1945
Country  Nazi Germany
Branch Heer
Type Static Infantry
Role Coastal Defence
Size Division
Garrison/HQ Guernsey

The 319th Static Infantry Division (German 319. Infanterie-Division) was a German Army static division during World War II. It was raised in November 1940 from units of the 87th, 169th and the 299th Infantry Divisions. On 30 April 1941 the 319th Division replaced the 216th Infantry Division in the Channel Islands defense and remained in that position until its capture on May 1945 by British forces.

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Organization (1943–45)

German soldiers in King Street, Saint Helier, Jersey in August 1941.

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