It can be everything, from every country. Mine is the 7th Flieger Division. They had quite some successes, they were elite trained and I like the idea of mobility and jumping behind enemy lines. Their equipment was impressive and they were quite powerful considering it was an airdropped force. I've seen footage of them in training and it was really amazing. So, what's yours?
I'm biased, but my own regiment, 1st Royal Tank Regiment. They were in the North African Campaign from the first day to the last. They were the only regiment to remain in Tobruk for the entire siege. They served a short while in Italy before returning to the UK for Operation Overlord. They landed on Gold beach on D-Day +1 and fought their way into Germany ending the war on the outskirts of Hamburg.
Funny Question, but after D-Day and the push, did they have any Royal Engineers with them ? My father was part of a pathfinder group, attached to a tank regiment, his company orders were to make bridges safe, he lost a couple of good mates on the way to Germany, and had nightmares about it until the day he passed away. As a conincidence he'd also served in the desert at Kasassein, but was never awarded the North Africa medal.
They were part of 22nd Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division (Desert Rats). The Division would have had engineer support, maybe though he was with 79th Armoured Division (Hobart's Funnies) the specialist tanks, many of which were crewed by the Royal Engineers. This unit did not fight as a formation but sub units went wherever they were needed.
I've always found the 250. Infanterie-Division (División Azul) pretty fascinating. They were the Spanish volunteers in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. I suppose I find the unit interesting as it was, in some respects, an extension of the Spanish Civil War and the unit fought tenaciously in a land very different than their own. Franco was also walking a political tightrope by trying to remain neutral and therefore not draw the wraith of the western allies, while trying to placate the Axis Powers (Germany and Italy) that were instrumental in his victory during the Civil War.
