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Also Known As German Air Force
Date 1935 - 1946 • 1956 - present
Areas Of Involvement military aircraft • blitzkrieg
Related People Hermann Göring • Günther Rall

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Luftwaffe
Stuka
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
Learn more about the evacuation from Dunkirk to England during World War II
What was the Battle of Britain?
View German pilot Norbert Biehler inside a human centrifuge training to withstand an accelerated centrifugal force
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