Fallshirmjager Company

Fallshirmjager Companies, aka Paratrooper companies, are a unit in flames of war and a branch of German Luftwaffe.

IRL

The Idea of Paratroops was conceived quite early in the history of aviation. The Soviet Union tinkered with having elite paratroop units, but it was the Germans who more or less standardized the concept. Funnily enough, the Fallshirmjagers were actually classified as Lutwaffe assets, meaning that they were under Georing's whim during the conflict.

German Paratroopers earned a fierce reputation during the early war and played a valuable role in the Invasion of Poland, siezing valuable bridges and roads and awaiting the rest of the German army, in perfect unison with the German blitzkrieg tactics. They were used in France, Norway, and Operation Barbarossa but were used to disastrous effect at Crete, and were pretty much relgated to side duties post-Crete. It didn't also help that Stalin was pretty much bulldozing straight towards Berlin with no brakes, and Paratroopers wouldn't do anything against dozens of tons of angry Commie cannon fodder and steel. Compounding this was that the allies had pretty much wrestled away German Fighter superiority by this point, which would make the Junkers transport aircraft juicy targets for any unfortunate fool caught by a Spitfire, Mig, or Mustang looking to get back at ol' Adolf.

German Paratroops, much like IRL paratroops, carried distinct weapons compared to general grunts. They carried MP40s on the jump with them, but most of their extra toys like rifles, crew served MGs, and MG34s had to be dropped from the aircraft in containers. This was a severe liability, and this was specifically why the Battle of Crete went so terribly for the Paratroops. So they decided to make the MG42, but with selective fire and lighter, and by accident made the most advanced weapon in the whole damn war: the FG42