A Flak Corps (German: Flakkorps, also spelt Flak-Korps) was a massed anti-aircraft (AA) artillery formation employed by the Luftwaffe for anti-aircraft...
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Scherzer as commander of the I./Flak-Regiment 25. According to Scherzer as Major of the Reserves and commander of the I./Grenadier-Regiment 1. According...
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Walther von Axthelm (category German Army personnel of World War I)
Iron Cross on 4 September 1941 as Generalmajor and commander of the I. Flak-Korps Scherzer 2007, p. 196. Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger...
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List of German brigades in World War II (redirect from 1st Flak Brigade)
The army flak artillery (Heeresflakartillerie) had become its own branch of the Wehrmacht artillery on 15 June 1941,: 191 after first army flak artillery...
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Pioneer Battalion. Flakpanzer I (2 cm Flak 38 auf Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.A) An anti-aircraft conversion of Ausf.A tanks mounting a Flak 38 anti-aircraft cannon. A...
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Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 849 of 3 June 1940. In 1941, two higher grades of the Knight's Cross were instituted. The enactment Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 613 of 28...
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Hitler to dispatch aircraft to Sicily, and a blocking force (the Afrika Korps) to support their ally in the North Africa campaign. This blocking force...
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Fliegerkorps Tunis I Jagdkorps II Jagdkorps I Flak Corps II Flak Corps III Flak Corps IV Flak Corps V Flak Corps VI Flak Corps I Parachute Corps II Parachute...
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vehicle that mounted the 8.8 cm (3.5 in) KwK 36 gun (derived from the 8.8 cm Flak 36, the famous "eighty-eight" feared by Allied troops). 1,347 were built...
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Wolfgang Pickert (category German Army personnel of World War I)
Generalmajor and commander of 9. Flak-Division (mot.) 489th Oak Leaves on 5 June 1944 as Generalmajor and commander of III. Flak-Korps Adam, Wilhelm; Ruhle, Otto...
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