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Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions from 1940, he died in a plane crash in February 1942. He was also a Luftwaffe Generalmajor, an SA-Obergruppenführer and (posthumously) the first recipient of the German Order. Hans von Tschammer und Osten – Commissioner for Gym and Sports of the Reich from 1933 to 1943.
Leader of the Military Junta of Mauritania: 27 January 1979 Dakar Senegal: Airplane accident de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou (1940–1981) Jaime Roldós Aguilera [3] [1] President of Ecuador: 24 May 1981 Huairapungo Ecuador: Airplane accident Beechcraft Super King Air (1929–1981) Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera [3] [1] Military Leader of ...
Polish aviation expert Jerzy Maryniaki created a simulation of the crash, in which he concluded that the plane must have been under control up until the very moment of the crash. [37] Kisielewski argues that the plane was likely under the control of the second pilot, who died in the crash. [2]
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Heinrich Ehrler (14 September 1917 – 4 April 1945) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator and wing commander during World War II.As a fighter ace, he is credited with 208 enemy aircraft shot down in over 400 combat missions.
Elefant (German for "elephant") was a heavy tank destroyer (self propelled anti-tank gun) used by German Panzerjäger (anti-tank units) during World War II. Ninety-one units were built in 1943 under the name Ferdinand (after its designer Ferdinand Porsche) using VK 45.01 (P) tank hulls which had been produced for the Tiger I tank before the competing Henschel design had been selected.
On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board.Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria; the former president of Poland-in-exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski; the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers; the ...
The Elephant Tower (Danish: Elefanttårnet) (also known as the Elephant Gate (Danish: Elefantporten)) is the most famous landmark of the Carlsberg district in Copenhagen, Denmark, the original brewery site of the Carlsberg Breweries (the area is now under redevelopment as a new neighbourhood). The tower takes its name from four large granite ...