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The Rüsselsheim massacre was a war crime that involved the lynching and killing of six American airmen by townspeople of Rüsselsheim during World War II.. The incident happened on August 26, 1944, two days after a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber of the United States Army Air Forces was shot down by heavy anti-aircraft fire over Hanover.
Pages in category "Luftwaffe personnel killed in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 262 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air ...
The five Russian military crew members and three Turkish forest inspectors were killed. [112] 17 August – The only flying prototype Il-112V suffered a fire in the right engine and crashed near Kubinka Air base. All three crew on board were killed, including test-pilot Nikolai Kuimov, who was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation ...
Dead Soviet civilians near Minsk, Belarus, 1943 Kiev, 23 June 1941 A victim of starvation in besieged Leningrad suffering from muscle atrophy in 1941. World War II losses of the Soviet Union were about 27 million both civilian and military from all war-related causes, [1] although exact figures are disputed. A figure of 20 million was ...
Flying for Her Country: the American and Soviet women military pilots of World War II. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-99434-1. Cottam, Kazimiera J. (1998). Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers. Focus Publishing/R.Pullins Co. ISBN 1-58510-160-5. Jackson, Robert (2003). Air aces of World War II ...
Все асы Сталина 1936–1953 гг [All aces of Stalin 1936-1953] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza. ISBN 9785457567221. Morgan, Hugh (2013). Soviet Aces of World War 2. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-4728-0057-2. Seidl, Hans D (1998). Stalin's Eagles – An illustrated Study of the Soviet Aces of World War II and Korea. Atglen, PA: Schiffer ...
Captain Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello (Russian: Николай Францевич Гастелло, April 23, 1907 – June 26, 1941) was a Russian aviator and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He is one of the best known Soviet war heroes, being the best known Soviet pilot to conduct a "fire taran " – a suicide action by the pilot of an aircraft on ...