Talk:Heinrich Schäfer/@comment-39523150-20190519210238

Heinrich Schafer was incredible! I just finished reading about him in "Jump Into Hell" by Franz Kurowski. In the closing weeks of the Tunisian campaign, Oberfeldwebel (US army equivalent to SFC) Schafer's platoon of a mere 48-50 fallschirmjager (paratroopers) held off multiple attacks by allied infantry forces estimated at 750 men. When these failed to dislodge Schafer's platoon, the Allies attacked with tanks on both flanks and frontally. They had no antitank guns but with some backup help from artillery (destroying only a few), they managed to destroy 37 Allied tanks within their position with nothing more than infantry anti-tank weapons.