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The Junkers Ju 52/3m (nicknamed Tante Ju ("Aunt Ju") and Iron Annie) is a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers.First introduced during 1930 as a civilian airliner, it was adapted into a military transport aircraft by Germany's Nazi regime, who exercised power over the company for its war efforts, over the objections of the company's founder ...
A Luftwaffe Ju 52/3m of 1./KGrzbV 107 (Fliegerkorps X) struck trees for reasons unknown and crashed at Åmot, Østerdalen, Hedmark, Norway, killing all 15 on board. The aircraft was on its way to Narvik with paratroopers and drop containers. [72] 28 May A Luftwaffe Ju 52/3m crashed at Ulmet/Kusel, Germany, killing all five on board. [73] 7 June
The Mechelen incident of 10 January 1940, also known as the Mechelen affair, took place in Belgium during the Phoney War in the first stages of World War II. A German aircraft with an officer on board carrying the plans for Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the German attack on the Low Countries, crash-landed in neutral Belgium near Vucht in the modern ...
Operation Varsity (24 March 1945) was a successful airborne forces operation launched by Allied troops toward the end of World War II. Involving more than 16,000 paratroopers and several thousand aircraft, it is the largest airborne operation ever conducted on a single day and in one location. [Note 5]
The Battle of Crete (‹See Tfd› German: Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, Greek: Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (‹See Tfd› German: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture the island of Crete. It began on the morning of 20 May 1941, with multiple German ...
21,300 killed, wounded, and missing. American airborne landings in Normandy were a series of military operations carried by the United States as part of Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944, during World War II. In the opening maneuver of the Normandy landings, about 13,100 American paratroopers from the ...
Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke. The Fallschirmjäger (German: [ˈfalʃɪʁmˌjɛːɡɐ] ⓘ) were the paratrooper branch of the German Luftwaffe before and during World War II. They were the first paratroopers to be committed in large-scale airborne operations. They were commanded by Kurt Student, the Luftwaffe's second-in-command.
Battle of Heraklion. Coordinates: 35°20′11″N 25°8′19″E. Battle of Heraklion. Part of World War II, Battle of Crete. German paratroopers dropping near Heraklion; a Ju 52 is visible and the smoke (centre) marks where another has crashed after being hit by anti-aircraft fire. [1] Date. 20 – 30 May 1941. Location.