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This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system.. The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used during World War II.
During operations on the Eastern and African fronts. Luftflotte 1 (Russian Northern front) Luftflotte 2 (North Africa, Southern Italy and Greece) Luftflotte 3 (France, the Netherlands and Belgium) Luftflotte 4 (Black Sea coast, Ukraine, the Caucasus) Luftflotte 5 (Norway and Finland) Luftflotte 6 (Central Russian front, Belarus)
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.
Refugees moving westwards in 1945. During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by ...
Fieseler Fi 2 (F-2 Tiger), acrobatic sportsplane, 1932; Fieseler Fi 5 (F-5) acrobatic sportsplane/trainer, 1933; Fieseler Fi 98 biplane fighter, 1936; Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1), flying bomb; Fieseler Fi 156 Storch ('Stork'), STOL reconnaissance aircraft; Fieseler Fi 167 ship-borne biplane reconnaissance/torpedo bomber; Fieseler Fi 103R "Reichenberg ...
The following is a list of aircraft production by Germany during World War II by type and year. Note that some figures may not be accurate, and it is not comprehensive. Aircraft variants of different roles are listed separately. Related types are listed next to each other; see RLM aircraft designation system for an explanation.
The aircraft in this list include prototype versions of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and unfinished wartime experimental programmes. In the former, development can stretch back to the 1920s and in the latter the project must have started between 1939-1945.
The Luftwaffe [N 2] (German pronunciation: [ˈlʊftvafə] ⓘ) was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the Luftstreitkräfte of the Imperial Army and the Marine-Fliegerabteilung of the Imperial Navy, had been disbanded in May 1920 in accordance with the terms ...