Germany

Germany to the East I

Germany Soviet Strategy Wars 20 Min Read

With his decision for war with the Soviet Union, Hitler had closed off other strategic options. The Soviet Union, he stressed, posed a long-term threat to Germany that had to be eliminated, and, in any case, the time was right as at the moment the Red Army was poorly trained, inadequately led, and badly equipped. Besides, as Halder recorded his…

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Aircraft Germany 11 Min Read

Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke GmbH (DFW)

DFW C.V (LVG) Serial: W Western Front, 1917. Note: colours are probable, they can be for example green. DFW R-I Unit: RFA 500 Serial: R11/15 Baltic area, April-September 1917. Only single aircraft was built. In the beginning of Summer 1917 in went to Easter Front to Alt-Auz airfield. On 13…

Aircraft Germany 25 Min Read

Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG Gotha

One of the most famous German aircraft of the First World War was the twin-engined Gotha bomber built by the Gothaer Waggonfabrik Company. The origins of the company went way back before the war, when one of the first aircraft they built was of Taube (Dove) design and given the…

Aircraft Germany 10 Min Read

Otto-Werke GmbH

AGO C.1 by Ivan Berryman. As Prussia started to develop its own aircraft manufacturing empire, so Bavaria looked to achieve the same. The rivalry and friction between the two states in the formative years hampered any form of co-operation within the German empire. The Bavarian Army Inspectorate of Engineering embarked…

Australians at D-Day

On the night of 5/6 June Bomber Command conducted precision attacks on ten German coastal artillery batteries near the beaches where Allied troops were to land. Each battery was targeted by approximately 100 heavy bombers, and all four Australian heavy bomber squadrons took part in the operation. No. 460 Squadron…

Aircraft Germany 18 Min Read

Luft-Verkehrs Gesellschaft GmbH (LVG)

LVG B.I Unit: Bayerische Feldflieger-Abteilung 2 End of 1914. LVG C.II Unit: Kasta 4, KAGOHL 1 Serial: IV.1 Pilot – Lt.Hans Ulrich von Trotha, observer Lt.Baron von Lernsner. LVG C.V Unit: Flieger-Abteilung (A)212 Pilot – Flugzeugfuhrer UO Schroder, observer – Lt.August Auer. Early 1918. LVG C.VI Unit: Flieger-Abteilung? Serial: 4…

Air Warfare Aircraft Germany 29 Min Read

Zeppelin-Werke Staaken GmbH

Although firms like Siemens-Schuckert and Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (LVG) had made tremendous inroads into the development of long-range bombers during the First World War, the most successful company by far was Zeppelin-Werke Staaken. It was the Staaken R-planes that bombed Britain during the hostilities and they were the only large bombers to…

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Focke Wulf Fw 190D-9 Dora

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