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4th Fighter Division (Germany) 4th Fighter Division ( 4. Jagd-Division) was one of the primary divisions of the German Luftwaffe [1] in World War II. [2] It was formed in August 1942 in Döberitz [3] from the sub units of the 2nd Air Corps. The Division was redesignated 1st Fighter Division on 15 September 1943 and reformed 15 September 1943 in ...
The Battle of Britain ( German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany 's air force, the Luftwaffe.
1st Air Corps (Germany) I. Fliegerkorps (1st Air Corps) was formed 11 October 1939 in Cologne from the 1st Air Division. The Corps was also known as Luftwaffenkommando Don between 26 August 1942 until 17 February 1943. It was transformed to the 18th Air Division on 4 April 1945.
The I Army Corps / I AK ( German: I. Armee-Korps) was a corps level command of the Prussian and then the Imperial German Armies from the 19th Century to World War I . It was established with headquarters in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Initially, the Corps catchment area comprised the entire Province of East Prussia, but from 1 ...
42d Troop Carrier Squadron. 43rd (5th Duke of Wellington's Regiment) Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery. 43rd (City of London Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery. (previous page) ( next page ) Categories: Organizations disestablished in 1944. 1944 in military history. Military units and formations by year of disestablishment.
II Corps (United Kingdom) Formation sign of II Corps during the Second World War. [1] It shows a salmon leaping over a "brook", and was designed in 1939 by the corps' chief of staff, Vyvyan Pope, as a play on the name of Alan Brooke, GOC. [2] Corps formation sign during the First World War.
Formation. VIII Reserve Corps was formed on the outbreak of the war in August 1914 [1] as part of the mobilisation of the Army. It was initially commanded by General der Infanterie Wilhelm Freiherr von Egloffstein. [2] It was still in existence at the end of the war [3] in the 7th Army, Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz on the Western Front.
