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Listed below are people killed by non-military law enforcement officers in Germany, whether or not in the line of duty, irrespective of reason or method. Included, too, are cases where individuals died in police custody due to applied techniques. Inclusion in the list implies neither wrongdoing nor justification on the part of the person killed or the officer involved. The listing simply ...
The second Schweinfurt raid, [9] also called Black Thursday, was a World War II air battle that took place on 14 October 1943, over Nazi Germany between forces of the United States 8th Air Force and German Luftwaffe fighter arm (Jagdwaffe).
It's noted that police records only list 5 shooting deaths for 2001, due to often excluding cases where accidental discharges caused death. [173] [174] A 2005 article mentions the shooting of a 19-year old man who stabbed his father multiple times with a knife in Weimarer Land district, Thuringia, but no mention of fatalities is made. [175 ...
Schweinfurt has a central location in Germany and is located about 40 km from Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Thuringia, in the middle of Main Franconia, Germanic-speaking Europe and the European Union. Schweinfurt lies on the river Main, which connects the North Sea with the Black Sea via the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal.
Bruce Ward Carr (January 28, 1924 – April 25, 1998) was a highly decorated United States Air Force colonel.During World War II, he was shot down over Germany and, after evading capture for several days, snuck into a Luftwaffe airfield and stole an enemy plane which he flew back to Allied lines.
Robertson died at the age of 52 on February 23, 1993, at around 7:35 p.m. in the crash of a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter near Wiesbaden, Germany. [ 4 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Returning from a meeting at the United States European Command headquarters in Stuttgart , the helicopter crashed while attempting to land at Wiesbaden Air Base . [ 17 ]
The Schweinfurt mission in particular foretold the failure of deep penetration raids of Germany without adequate long-range escort. The 1st Bomb Wing was over German-occupied territory for three hours and thirty minutes, of which two hours and ten minutes, including all of the time spent over Germany itself, saw no fighter support whatsoever.
Jackson's 31st mission was a raid on the German ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt on the night of 26–27 April. Having bombed the target, Jackson's Lancaster (serial ME669) was attacked by a German night fighter and a fuel tank in the starboard wing caught fire. Jackson, already wounded from shell splinters, strapped on a parachute and ...