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A new 5th Flak Division, then under the title 5th Flak Division (W) (5. Flakdivision (W)), was recreated on 1 November 1944 in Meschede to coordinate V-1 flying bomb attacks on the Western Front. [1]: 317 The divisional commander of this new V-1 staff was Walter Kathmann. [2] It contained the Flak Regiment 155 (W) and the Flak Regiment 255 (W).
The 5th Signal Command (Theater) ("Dragon Warriors" [1]) was a European-based tactical and strategic communications organization of the United States Army specializing in command and control which supported theater-limited, joint-forces, and combined forces activities. The command's mission was to build, operate and defend network capabilities ...
The 5th Panzer Division (English: 5th Tank Division) was an armoured division of the German Army during World War II, established in 1938. The division fought in Poland, France, the Balkans and in the Soviet Union; first as part of Army Group Centre (1941–44) and then Army Group North. The division surrendered to Soviet and Western Allied ...
Urnes-style runestone U 887, Skillsta, Sweden, showing a runic dragon and a bipedal winged dragon.. Worms, wurms or wyrms (Old English: wyrm, Old Norse: ormʀ, ormr, Old High German: wurm), meaning serpent, are archaic terms for dragons (Old English: draca, Old Norse: dreki, Old High German: trahho) in the wider Germanic mythology and folklore, in which they are often portrayed as large ...
Five rows of dragon's teeth in the area of the Hotel Relais Königsberg; Bridge design of the five rows of dragon's teeth at the dam of the Dreilägerbach; Bunker for water supplies near Lammersdorf hunting lodge; Diverse visible remains of five rows of dragon's teeth between Lammersdorf and Monschau. Remains of a movable barrier near Lammersdorf
5th Styrian, Carinthian and Carniolan Dragoons (Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia's Own) (Steirisch-Kärntnerisch-Krainerisches Dragoner-Regiment „Nikolaus I. Kaiser von Rußland“ Nr. 5) 6th Moravian Dragoons (Frederick Francis, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin's Own) ( Mährisches Dragoner-Regiment „Friedrich Franz IV.
According to the 19th-century English archaeologist Charles Boutell, a lindworm in heraldry is basically "a dragon without wings". [12] A different heraldic definition by German historian Maximilian Gritzner was "a dragon with four feet" instead of usual two, [13] so that depictions with - comparatively smaller - wings exist as well.
5th Panzer Army (German: 5. Panzerarmee ) was the name of two different German armoured formations during World War II. The first of these was formed in 1942, during the North African campaign and surrendered to the Allies at Tunis in 1943.