One of the innovations to result from the aerial warfare experience this conflict provided was the development of the " finger-four " formation by the German pilot Werner Mölders.

* 1913 – Werner Mölders, German WWII fighter pilot ( d. 1941 )

In November 1941 he replaced Werner Mölders, who was killed in a flying accident, as Germany's commander of the Fighter Force ( General der Jagdflieger ), staying in this position until January 1945 when he was relieved of his command because of his constant criticism of the Luftwaffe senior leadership, climaxing in the Fighter Pilots Conspiracy.

On 24 May 1938 Galland left Spain and was replaced by Werner Mölders.

Werner Mölders replied that he would like the Bf 109 to be fitted with more powerful engines.

This made him the most successful fighter pilot of the war at that point, putting him ahead of his colleague, friend and rival Werner Mölders.

In November 1941, he was chosen by Göring to command Germany's fighter force as General der Jagdflieger, succeeding Werner Mölders who had just been killed in an air crash on route to attend the funeral of Ernst Udet.

Legend has it that on 28 July he met Werner Mölders in combat, damaging his plane and wounding him, but failing to bring him down.

In Germany a squadron named after Werner Mölders has been renamed, because as a pilot he led the escorting units in the bombing of Guernica.

Oberstleutnant Werner Mölders flew a yellow-nosed Bf-109F2 while with JG 51 during June 1941.

This process was then carried out but the issue surfaced again in 2005 following media revelations about the role of pilot Werner Mölders who had volunteered to serve in Spain.

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* June 30 – German fighter pilot Werner Mölders shoots down five Soviet bombers, bringing his aerial victory total to 82.

* July 15 – Luftwaffe ace Werner Mölders shoots down two Soviet aircraft, raising his victory total to 101.

* November 22 – The German fighter ace Werner Mölders dies in the crash of a Heinkel He 111 bomber at Breslau while riding as a passenger on his way to Ernst Udets funeral.

Werner Mölders ( 18 March 1913 – 22 November 1941 ) was a World War II German Luftwaffe pilot and the leading German fighter ace in the Spanish Civil War.

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Roll's grandfather, Barrel Caskett, also appears alongside his old friend Werner Von Bluecher in search of the Mother Lode, a legendary treasure supposed to have infinite energy.

Kommandant Oberst ( Colonel ) Wilhelm Klink ( Werner Klemperer ) is an old-line Luftwaffe officer of aristocratic ( Junker ) Prussian descent, and a social climber.

General Werner Panitzki, successor to General Josef Kammhuber as Inspekteur der Luftwaffe, said, " Erich is a good pilot, but not a good officer.

Werner Baumbach ( December 27, 1916 – October 20, 1953 ) was a bomber pilot in the German Luftwaffe during World War II and commander of the secret bomber wing Kampfgeschwader 200 ( KG 200 ).

Besides Colonel Hossbach and Hitler, those attending the meeting were the Reich Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath, the Reich War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, the Army Commander General Werner von Fritsch, the Kriegsmarine Commander Admiral Erich Raeder and the Luftwaffe Commander Hermann Göring.

* Werner Blume ( 1911 – 1942 ), a German Luftwaffe reconnaissance pilot and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II

Werner Georg Emil Lucas ( 27 December 1917 – 24 October 1943 ) was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot, born on December 27, 1917 in north Berlin, Germany.

The fighters, however, received the most attention in the annals of military aviation, since it produced high-scoring " aces " such as Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known in English as " The Red Baron " ( in Germany, he was known as " der Rote Kampfflieger " Air Fighter ), Lothar von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring, Oswald Boelcke, Werner Voss, and Max Immelmann ( the first airman to win the Pour le Mérite, Imperial Germany's highest decoration for gallantry, as a result of which the decoration became popularly known as the " Blue Max ").

* 1916 – Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot ( b. 1916 )

* 1917 – Werner Voss, German pilot ( b. 1897 )

** Werner Moelders, German fighter pilot ( d. 1941 )

* November 22 – Werner Moelders, German fighter pilot ( b. 1913 )

Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn ( born 13 February 1937 ) is a German pilot who became the first German to fly in space as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos programme.

A law student at Yale before the war, Hart is appointed by McNamara to defend the accused pilot at his court-martial, a trial to which the camp commandant, Oberst Werner Visser ( Marcel Iureş ), agrees.

Forte wrote a pilot called Dos Hermanos about brothers John and Dean which introduced him to Tom Werner of Carsey-Werner.

* Werner Baumbach ( 1916 – 1953 ), bomber pilot in World War II

Among them are Günther Blumentritt ( a former German general ), James M. Gavin ( an American general ), Frederick Morgan ( Deputy Chief of Staff at SHAEF ), John Howard ( who led the airborne assault on the Pegasus Bridge ), Lord Lovat ( who commanded the 1st Special Service Brigade ), Philippe Kieffer ( who led his men in the assault on Ouistreham ), Pierre Koenig ( who commanded the Free French Forces in the invasion ), Max Pemsel ( a German general ), Werner Pluskat ( the major who was the first German officer to see the invasion fleet ), Josef " Pips " Priller ( the hot-headed pilot ) and Lucie Rommel ( widow of Erwin Rommel ).

Maneuvers such as the " combat spread " were first devised by pilots like Werner Molders during the Spanish civil war, while the energy-managing maneuvers called the " high and low Yo-Yos " were credited to a Chinese pilot named Yo-Yo Noritake, during World War II.

* Graf Schilly-personal pilot for the Chiefs of Staff General Werner Frengel and General Walther von Brauchitsch