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Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (16 February 1922 – 15 July 1950) was a German Luftwaffe night-fighter pilot and the highest-scoring night fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. A flying ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during combat. [ 1 ]
Galland travelled by foot or horse-drawn wagon 30 kilometres (19 mi) to help prepare the gliders for flight until his father bought him a motorcycle. [9] By 19 Galland was a glider pilot. [10] In 1932 he completed pilot training at the Gelsenkirchen Luftsportverein. [10] Under the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was denied an air force. They were ...
German horse-drawn supply train with pneumatic tires in France, 1944. German and Soviet armies relied heavily on work horses to pull artillery and supplies. [18] Horses seemed to be a cheap and reliable transport especially in the spring and fall mud of the Eastern Front [18] but the associated costs of daily feeding, grooming and handling horses were staggering.
The 26th Army's Corps' would be layered in two belts whose defensive preparations had originally begun back on 11 February, [54] prior to any sign of German offensive intentions. The 57th Army's one Guards Rifle and one Rifle Corps were spread along a 60 km front and 10–15 km deep; the Army would receive another Rifle Corps during the ...
German pilots Günther Specht and Horst-Günther von Fassong were among those German pilots killed. [87] Little is known about the claims of JG 11. According to one German document, 13 fighters, two twin-engine and one four-engine aircraft were claimed destroyed. Five fighters were claimed damaged on "Glabbeek airfield"—in reality it was Ophoven.
Baur would score his last victories on 29 October 1918. [2] After the war, he joined the Freikorps under Franz von Epp. He went on to become a courier flier for the Bavarian airmail service. [1] Beginning in 1922, he was a pilot for Bayrische Luftlloyd, and then Junkers. [1] In 1926, Baur became a pilot of Deutsche Luft Hansa. [1]
The plane, which was a Boeing 747, rose to about 31,000 feet before air traffic control received a message from the pilot about a horse getting loose on the plane.
The German Army constituted 11 cavalry divisions at the outbreak of war - the existing Guards Cavalry Division and 10 more formed on mobilisation. Each consisted of 3 cavalry brigades (6 regiments each of 4 squadrons), a horse artillery Abteilung (3 four-gun batteries), a machine gun detachment (company size, 6 MGs), plus pioneers, signals and ...