* German Air Force

It was never used in any German military field manual, either in the Army or the Air Force.

* 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

This was just the opportunity the German Luftwaffe, Italian Regia Aeronautica, and the Soviet Union's Red Air Force needed to test their latest aircraft.

The two countries are also economically interdependent: 8. 8 % of German exports are U. S .- bound and 6. 6 % of German imports originate from the U. S. Other signs of the close ties include the continuing position of German-Americans as the largest ethnic group in the U. S. and the status of Ramstein Air Base ( near Kaiserslautern ) as the largest U. S. military community outside the U. S.

The first airplane flight took place in Guyana in March 1913 when George Schmidt, a German, flew a machine over Georgetown, taking off from the Bel Air Park Race Course.

The crisis ended in a bloody shootout at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base which left 11 hostages, 5 terrorists, and 1 German policeman dead.

HK provides firearms for many military and paramilitary units, like the Special Air Service, U. S. Navy SEALs, Delta Force, FBI HRT, the German KSK and GSG 9 and many other counter-terrorist and hostage rescue teams.

NADGE / AEGIS were complemented, in West Germany by the German Air Defence Ground Environment ( GEADGE ), an updated radar network adding southern West Germany to the European system, and Coastal Radar Integration System ( CRIS ), adding data links from Danish coastal radars.

With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the " final solution to the Jewish question " in eastern Europe, and with Hermann Göring ’ s position declining with the failure of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it.

During World War II, Lübeck was the first German city to be attacked in substantial numbers by the Royal Air Force.

Luftwaffe is also the generic term in German speaking countries for any national military aviation service, and the names of air forces in other countries are usually translated into German as " Luftwaffe " ( e. g. Royal Air Force is often translated as britische Luftwaffe ).

The forerunner of the Luftwaffe, the Imperial German Army Air Service, was founded in 1910 with the name Die Fliegertruppen des deutschen Kaiserreiches.

On 25 March 1933 the Deutschen Luftsportverband ( DVLA ) ( German Air Sport Association ) absorbed all private and national organizations, whilst retaining its ' sports ' title.

Until 1935, the 1926 manual Directives for the Conduct of the Operational Air War continued to act as the main guide for German air operations.

Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe continued to defend German – occupied Europe against the growing offensive power of RAF Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Forces.

Inevitably, both the Bomber B and Amerika Bomber programs were victims of the continued emphasis of the Wehrmacht's insistence for the Luftwaffe to support the Army as its primary mission, as well as the increasingly devastating results of the RAF Bomber Command at night, and by 1943 the USAAF's Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces ' heavy bomber raids by daylight on the German aviation industry, which catastrophically diminished the Third Reich's overall aviation production capacity later in World War II.

* German Air Fleets in World War II

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

Brando then took a variety of roles in the 1950s: portraying Napoleon in Désirée, Sky Masterson in the musical Guys and Dolls ; Sakini, a Japanese interpreter for the U. S. Army in postwar Japan in The Teahouse of the August Moon ; as a United States Air Force officer in Sayonara, and a German officer in The Young Lions.

* Wolfgang Martini ( 1891 – 1963 ), German Air Force Officer largely responsible for promoting early radar development

* 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as " The Red Baron ", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

* 1897 – Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I ( d. 1918 )

* 1919 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II ( d. 1942 )

* 1896 – Karl Allmenroder, German flying ace ( d. 1917 )

* 1918 – Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot ( d. 2009 )

This was done probably in order to avoid German connotations in light of the recently concluded First World War as well as to capitalize on Adolph's distant relation to World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker.

* 1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen (" The Red Baron "), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

* March 10 – Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot ( d. 2009 )

** Max Ritter von Müller, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1887 )

** Erich Loewenhardt, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1897 )

* September 27 – Fritz Rumey, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1891 )

* June 5 – Karl Emil Schäfer, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1891 )

* June 27 – Karl Allmenröder, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1896 )

* September 15 – Kurt Wolff, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1895 )

* September 23 – Werner Voss, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1897 )

* October 30 or 31 – Heinrich Gontermann, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1896 )

* September 20 – Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring fighter ace in world history ( b. 1922 )

* March 19 – Adolf Galland, German general and World War II fighter ace ( d. 1996 )

** Walther Wever, German fighter ace ( b. 1923 )

* September 20 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German World War II fighter ace ( b. 1919 )

* November 17 – Ernst Udet, German World War I fighter ace and Nazi Luftwaffe official ( b. 1896 )

* February 9 – Adolf Galland, German general and World War II fighter ace ( b. 1912 )

* March 20 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German World War II fighter ace ( d. 1983 )

* December 13 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German World War II fighter ace ( d. 1942 )

* February 25 – Heinrich Gontermann, German World War I fighter ace ( d. 1917 )