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Rank. Oberfeldwebel (master sergeant) Unit. JG 5, JG 7. Battles/wars. World War II. Heinz Arnold (12 February 1919 – 17 April 1945) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace. He is credited with 49 aerial victories including seven victories claimed flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter.
Bf 109. Jagdgeschwader 27 (JG 27) "Afrika" was a fighter wing of the Luftwaffe during World War II. The wing was given the name "Africa" for serving in the North African Campaign predominantly alone in the period from April 1941 to September 1942. Elements of JG 27 fought in every major theatre of operations in which the Wehrmacht operated.
Jagdgeschwader 77 (JG 77) Herz As ("Ace of Hearts") was a Luftwaffe fighter wing during World War II. It served in all the German theaters of war, from Western Europe to the Eastern Front, and from the high north in Norway to the Mediterranean. All three gruppen (groups) within the unit operated variants of the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
Jagdgeschwader 7. Jagdgeschwader 7 „Nowotny“ (zkr.: JG 7) byla stíhací eskadra německé Luftwaffe za druhé světové války a první jednotka na světě vyzbrojená proudovými letouny. Vznikla na podzim roku 1944 a sloužila až do kapitulace Německa v květnu 1945. Vyzbrojena byla výhradně proudovými stíhačkami Messerschmitt Me ...
Walter Nowotny (7 December 1920 – 8 November 1944) was an Austrian-born fighter ace of the Luftwaffe in World War II. He is credited with 258 aerial victories—that is, 258 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft—in 442 combat missions. Nowotny achieved 255 of these victories on the Eastern Front and ...
Jagdgeschwader 301 (JG 301) was a Luftwaffe fighter - wing of World War II. The order to form JG 301 was issued on 26 September 1943 and formed on 1 October 1943 in Neubiberg with Stab and three Gruppen (groups) as a "Wilde Sau" (wild boar) single-seat night fighter unit. The Geschwader was equipped with the Bf 109G and was reorganised with ...
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