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C-1 with improved nose braking rocket design, one prototype (DFS 230 V6) DFS 230 F-1 Larger version with capacity for 15 soldiers, one prototype (DFS 230 V7, DV+AV) DFS 203 Two DFS 230 fuselages joined by an enlarged cantilever centre section, with span of 27.6 m (91 ft) and length of 12.1 m (40 ft) due to the rear fuselage being extended.
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
The first German A-4 flight-test model, ("Launch Aggregate 1"), completed 25 February 1942, [216] but which slips out of its "corset" after being fully tanked at Test Stand VII at Peenemünde due to contraction of the fuselage from the cold propellants, falling 2 meters, smashing three fins, and coming to rest on the rim of the engine nozzle ...
Fi 156 D-1: Production version of the D-0. (produced in 1942–1945) Fi 156 E-0: Liaison version identical to the C-1; 10 pre-production aircraft were fitted with tracked landing gear and were produced in 1941–1942. Fi 156 F or P: Counter insurgency version. Identical to the C-3 with machine guns in side windows and bomb-racks and smoke layers.
The bird made a hole in the plane's radiator, forcing a gear-up landing near Brussels. [ 1 ] A Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning , 42-13400, c/n 222-7834, [ 2 ] crash-landed on Attu Island in the Aleutians , 2,000 miles (3,200 km) west of Anchorage, Alaska , on a training mission; the pilot, 2nd Lt. Robert Nesmith, was uninjured.
Accordingly, the number of German killed and wounded was much higher in the East than in the West. [58] [59] The Western Allies also took 134,000 German soldiers prisoner in North Africa [60], and at least 220,000 by the end of April 1945 in the Italian campaign [60]. The total haul of German POWs held by the Western Allies by April 30, 1945 ...
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In a more recent study, Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War: Volume 3, Operational Losses, Aircraft and Crews 1944–1945, the same author states that a report made by No. 85 Group RAF gave 127 operational aircraft destroyed and 133 damaged, while British personnel casualties were said to be 40 killed (11 pilots; six were killed in ...