How To Use Luftwaffe In A Sentence
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The rebel Nationalists were drawn up on its outskirts and the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe was trying to bomb it into submission.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Well, more accurately, I think it was a case of UK fighters vs German fighters —- no invasion attempt could take place unless the Luftwaffe had air superiority over the Channel, and that meant destroying Fighter Command.
The bass-ackwardness of ID proponents - The Panda's Thumb
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That night saw a climax of air attacks by over three hundred Luftwaffe bombers dropping incendiaries and heavy explosives on London, igniting churches and public buildings.
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It is a fact that Luftwaffe airmen and ground personnel won their few defensive successes towards war's end with conventional or even obsolescent weapons.
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Her account of the siege, a condemnation of Luftwaffe bombing in Spain, is still a brilliant piece of reportage.
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Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
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Assuming there was some residual Fighter Command capability to intefere with the Luftwaffe it is hard to imagine the Luftwaffe's being able to crush the RN's ability to defeat any invasion attempt.
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After the fall of France the Luftwaffe was in a very favourable geographical position for operations against England, but it did not have any overall tactical plan.
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Well, as a prisoner of war in Stalag 17, the 4,300 of us there, of whom 1,200 were from this new group that got shot down in those three weeks that I'm speaking about, we were under the command of the Luftwaffe.
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Typical of the series, this entry provides four pages of summary information on Luftwaffe aces and their battles with Allied pilots.
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The German Luftwaffe exercised their doctrine of joint operations in support of ground forces to great effect.
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About ten miles beyond Landshut there lay a Luftwaffe base with a huge airport.
Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: Livingstone)
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The Luftwaffe, however, by its initial surprise attacks on airfields, at once greatly reduced this disparity.
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The Luftwaffe staff drew special attention to this collateral benefit in several of its tactical memoranda.
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Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
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There is no doubt that these missions were exciting for there were few things more well defended than a Luftwaffe aerodrome.
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Meanwhile the 82nd was attacking rail traffic and found two Luftwaffe airfields empty of aircraft.
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In advance of the line of attack the Luftwaffe heavily bombed all road and rail junctions, and concentrations of Polish troops.
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Quick-moving armour, motorised infantry, the Luftwaffe flying both as artillery and as close support resulted in rapid dominance.
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The 22-year-old pilot who had never flown a plane before his 18th birthday was about to begin his meteoric rise to the top of the Luftwaffe's list of living aces.
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The redesignation of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG (Aktiengesellschaft or Corporation) to the Messerschmitt AG in 1938 led many to call it the Me 109, although the official Luftwaffe designation of the aircraft remained the Bf 109 throughout the War.
Above the Clouds at Thirty Below
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For the moment my main concern was not Luftwaffe fighters, lights or flak.
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The German government was funding glider clubs at the time because production of military aircraft was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. Walter and Reimar Horten initially entered the Luftwaffe as pilots, but submitted their flying wing glider design for a long-range bomber design request. via) is often called Gotha Go 229 or Ho 229 due to the identity of the chosen manufacturer of the aircraft.
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The Imperial War Museum yesterday said it would continue to invite German war veterans to its shows, despite criticism over the appearance of one of the Luftwaffe's greatest aces.
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As it lifted from the Luftwaffe fighter base outside Berlin, Schellenberg undid his seat belt and reached for his briefcase.
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Further background statistic: Luftwaffe average delivery during December 140 tons.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Ack-ack guns were operated by women for the first time in the war, preventing many home strikes by doodlebugs and the Luftwaffe.
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The rebel Nationalists were drawn up on its outskirts and the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe was trying to bomb it into submission.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
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The Nazi artillery dutifully shelled without mercy, and the Luftwaffe bombarded the streets relentlessly.
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Here, it seems two ubermensch from a Luftwaffe squadron have washed up on an American beach.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Secret World Chronicle - Invasion 02 Prologue 1
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Here in Britain, the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal teams are still dealing with unexploded bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe.
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Joyce was informing his listeners of a massive air strike by Luftwaffe bombers against the Kent coast.
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It made its mark in the attack on Poland in September 1939 and its versatility was such that it was used as a bomber, reconnaissance plane and as a pathfinder by the Luftwaffe.
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It is clear that the Hollerith system was used by the entire Nazi war machine, in contexts ranging from the coordination troop transports, to Luftwaffe raids, to slave labor.
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As daylight broke, fighter planes from the RAF gave cover against a possible attack by the Luftwaffe.
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Last year we were reminded of those epic days when Fighter Command denied the Luftwaffe air superiority in the skies over Britain.
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West Germany's got five hundred Devon Aviation Striker SK-6 swing-wing aircraft in service with the Luftwaffe as part of NATO's nuclear and conventional air force.
The Striker Portfolio
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In a section of the programme on the club's rich heritage, Luftwaffe (air force) chief Goering is pictured sitting on the club's honorary tribune, with uniformed Nazi officers behind him.
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Two Luftwaffe officers in blue leather coats were standing beside it.
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The RAF was outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, and radar saved already-stretched Fighter Command from having to maintain constant air surveillance.
Feb. 26, 1935: Radar, the Invention That Saved Britain
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I have often wondered what fate would have met the Luftwaffe over England had the RAF fighters been armed with .50-cal Brownings instead of the .303-cal weapons since the .50-cal had so much more hitting power.
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Stationed for a tour in West Germany, he became friends with many Luftwaffe aces.
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I was about seven at the time and, along with my mother and a number of neighbours, I spent the night in an Air Raid shelter, while the Luftwaffe were raining bombs and incendiaries on London.
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Luftwaffe tactical support for ground operations during the rest of the campaign remained spotty and ineffectual.
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Now the leaflets that rained down from the Luftwaffe planes proclaimed to her in Russian: Women!
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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Interesting reading on the G forces the Luftwaffe pilots experienced as they puled out of the attack dives & the development of the pull-out flaps that would ensure the plane would continue if the pilot blacked out.
Cheeseburger Gothic » SJPOneill asks two very important questions.
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For years I figured Paul had put us into that dive purposely to extinguish the flames and to hide in the clouds from the Luftwaffe.
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Quick-moving armour, motorised infantry, the Luftwaffe flying both as artillery and as close support resulted in rapid dominance.
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It shows a steely-eyed fighter pilot climbing into his Spitfire to do battle against the Luftwaffe.
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Luftwaffe tactical support for ground operations during the rest of the campaign remained spotty and ineffectual.
