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Primary user. Luftwaffe. Number built. 1 (with 2 incomplete prototypes) [1] History. First flight. April 1944 [1] The Blohm & Voss BV 238 was a German flying boat, built during World War II. It was the heaviest aircraft ever built when it first flew in 1944, and was the largest aircraft produced by any of the Axis powers during World War II.
Number built. 13. History. Introduction date. 1941. First flight. 7 September 1940. The Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking (pronounced "Veeking") was a large six-engined German flying boat designed and built by the German aircraft manufacturer Blohm & Voss. It was the largest flying boat to attain operational status during the Second World War. [1][2]
Docked in Danzig, 23 September 1939. MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia), as the Red ...
At 09:00, two German gunboats approached the canal bridge from Ouistreham. The lead boat fired its 20 mm gun and 2 Platoon returned fire with a PIAT, hitting the wheelhouse of the leading boat, which crashed into the canal bank. The second boat retreated to Ouistreham. [68] A lone German aircraft bombed the canal bridge at 10:00, dropping one bomb.
1 merchant ship sunk. (5,353 GRT) 1 warship sunk. (430 tons) German submarine U-853 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 21 August 1942 by DeSchiMAG AG Weser of Bremen. She was commissioned on 25 June 1943 with Kapitänleutnant Helmut Sommer in command.
This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system.. The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used during World War II.
Dubrovnik – An Italian steamship which was bombed by Luftwaffe planes, capsized and sank off Chioggia on 11 September, with the loss of about 100 people. Mohamed Ali El-Kebir – On 7 October, en route from Avonmouth to Gibraltar, the troopship was sunk by U-38 with the loss of 96 people.
1937–1945. Introduction date. November 1937. First flight. 3 July 1937. Retired. 1967 (Spanish Air Force) The Dornier Do 24 is a 1930s German three-engine flying boat designed by the Dornier Flugzeugwerke for maritime patrol and search and rescue. A total of 279 were built among several factories from 1937 to 1945.