German paratroopers in Norway, 1940

A german paratrooper who was part in the liberation of Benito Mussolini on the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy. He's wearing the long paratrooper coat('Knochensack' =bone bag) and his Fallschirmjäger-Gewehr 42 (paratrooper rifle), an excellent weapon -sometimes issued with scopes- but too costly to produce. (Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-567-1503A-01)

Fallschirmjäger with FG42

'Diggers' guard a group of captured german paratroopers waiting in front of a Sherman tank for egress to  the POW camp.