This time was called a "cruise," a "deployment," or a The concept was developed by a glider pilot who was a veteran of the famous 1940 assault on the Belgian fortress of Eben Emael. under one commanding officer (CO). The V-1, also known as the Fiesler Fi-103, was already in mass-production for its primary purpose as a flying bomb. KG 200’s remaining pilots and machines were shuffled to various air bases in futile attempts to destroy the Oder bridges. He issued discharge papers and a final service pay and said goodbye to his men.After the war, the Allies sought out members of the ‘ominous secret group,”sure that they had been involved in spiriting Nazi officials out of Europe. By 1945, however, the attitude toward using the flying bomb had changed so much that only criminals or pilots who were in a depressed state or were ill would be allowed to fly Reichenbergs.As early as 1942, researchers also began to develop Mistel (mistletoe), a piggyback aircraft—a smaller aircraft mounted above a larger, unmanned aircraft such as a medium-sized bomber. frequently with a new aircraft. He joined the RAF in 1938 at the age of 17, the bare minimum required.In May, 1941, at the age of 20, Finucane had already earned the DFC and now was the well-liked commander of 23 pilots and over 100 ground crew.

Despite his gallant reputation, Ball was deeply troubled by the violence of combat and often wrestled with depression. KG200’s operational aircraft included six Junkers Ju-188s and a pair of captured and renovated Boeing B-17s, redesignated Dornier Do-288s. He was also decorated with two bars on his DFC and received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) before his death on July 15“Bob” Braham brought down 29 enemy aircraft during WWII. Flak-Division, 6. All Rights Reserved. The KG 200 pilots usually dropped agents by parachute, but on some flights they would drop a personnel drop device—a metal and plywood container holding three agents and their equipment that would parachute to earth. So VF-8 flying Wildcats from By far, the highest scoring squadron was VF-15, with All of the information in this table was summarized from Barrett The continuing mysteries and half-truths about KG 200 prompted Stahl to writeThis article was written by Andrew J. Swanger and originally appeared in the September 1997 issue of John Locke, philosopher of liberalism whose ideas influenced the American founding fathers, famous for his treatise Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, essayist and father of Preston Sturges, screenwriter, film director and playwright.Ingrid Bergman, Oscar winning actress famous whose films include Charlie "Bird" Parker, self-taught jazz saxophonist, pioneer of the new "cool" movement.Dinah Washington, singer known in the 50s as "Queen of the Harlem Blues. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, commander (under commander in chief of the SS, Heinrich Himmler) of all SS intelligence operations and head of the Reich Main Security Office, informed the KG 200 operations officer that he needed to provide a plane that could fly almost to Moscow, land and unload cargo and people, all unnoticed. He would end the war with 54 enemy planes on his score sheet—second best in the nation after France’s “ace of aces,” Rene Fonck.Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you.The skies over World War I-era Europe served as a brutal testing ground for manned aircraft. deployments. He continued to cheat death in his later years by surviving a pair of horrific plane crashes in 1941 and 1942, the second of which left him adrift in the Pacific for 22 days.Though his kill count of 44 fell short of many of his countrymen, flying ace Albert Ball was arguably the British Empire’s most beloved fighter pilot during World War I.


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