Tag: Luftwaffe

• Eyes of the Fleet: The Arado Ar 196 and the Kriegsmarine’s Aerial Reach

  

  History Daily Dec 30, 2025 Image: An Arado Ar 196 in flight during the Second World War. #AradoAr196 https://amzn.to/44Lzrpz Section I — Opening Throughout the world’s vast ocean expanses and contested spaces that existed during World War II, where the world’s various fleets maneuvered back and forth across the world’s oceans, and empires gambled their…

  December 30, 2025

  1940s, Allied Forces, Crete, event & history, German Army, German Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe, military history, war

  1940s, Allied Forces, American History, Arado Ar 196, Crete, event & history, German Army, German Luftwaffe, Germany, History Daily, Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe, Mediterranean, military history, war, World War II

• July 19, 1943 – Eastern Front

  Stabsfeldwebel Paul Rätz pulls up after attacking a Soviet armoured train in the Leningrad sector. His stick shudders as his Focke-Wulf 190 takes hits from ground fire. Belly landing in swampy ground, he sets off but for his own lines, but is taken prisoner and repatriated to Germany in 1949. He passed away in 1989…

  July 19, 2024

  1940s, 1980s, 1990s, Focke-Wulf 190, History Daily, Luftwaffe, Paul Ratz, Restoration, Russia

  1940s, 1990s, Focke-Wulf 190, History Daily, Luftwaffe, Paul Ratz, Restoration, Russia