• Second World War Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine had 21 destroyers (German: Zerstörer) in service, while another one was just being completed. These 22 vessels...
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    over the wide reaches of the Pacific. Germany built similarly enlarged Zerstörer when it commenced naval rearmament. With the exception of the Tribal class...
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    Heavy fighter (redirect from Zerstörer)
    single-crew aircraft. In Germany, these larger fighters were known as Zerstörer ("destroyers"). The heavy fighter was a major design class during the...
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  • Fw 187 Falke (Falcon) – twin-engined two-seat heavy day fighter ("Zerstörer"), 1936. Focke-Wulf Fw 188 – reconnaissance aircraft (prototype), 1939. Focke-Wulf...
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  • torpedo boat Zerstörer/Typ 1934 Zerstörer/Typ 1934 A Zerstörer/Typ 1936 Zerstörer/Typ 1936 A Zerstörer/Typ 1936 A (Mob) Zerstörer/Typ 1936 B Type 101 Hamburg...
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    aircraft. Bf 110 C-1 Zerstörer, DB 601 B-1 engines. Bf 110 C-2 Zerstörer, fitted with FuG 10 radio, upgraded from FuG III. Bf 110 C-3 Zerstörer, upgraded 20 mm...
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  • 1940) Zerstörer 1936C Zerstörer 1938A/Ac Zerstörer 1938B Zerstörer 1942: Z51 launched 1944, but bombed and never completed Zerstörer 1944 Zerstörer 1945...
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    poor numbers and performance of aircraft. Units complained of lack of Zerstörer aircraft with all-weather capabilities and the "lack of climbing power...
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    aircraft) of World War I. The Germans later came to refer to it as a Zerstörer (destroyer), and the Dutch as a Jachtkruiser (hunter cruiser). However...
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    craft. The first minesweeper flotilla of the Kriegsmarine was formed in 1936 from pre-existing units of the Reichsmarine which had maintained two minesweeper...
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  • The Dornier Do 29 was a proposed zerstörer, or heavy fighter, designed by Dornier as a competitor to the Messerschmitt Bf 110. The design answered the...
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    adapted to two-seats to compete with the Bf 110 in the heavy fighter (Zerstörer) role, but only nine aircraft were built in total. In the early to mid-1930s...
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    Jagdgeschwader 134 (category Military units and formations established in 1936)
    April 1936 in Dortmund. It would later become one of the premier Zerstörer wings of the Luftwaffe, as Zerstörergeschwader 26. On 7 March 1936, Hptm....
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    the Zerstörer Bf 110 and Ju 88 units would only attack if the bombers had been deprived of their escort as described above and that the Zerstörer were...
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  • 68) Arado Ar 240, heavy fighter + attack, Zerstörer (Destroyer) Arado Ar 440, heavy fighter + attack, Zerstörer (Destroyer) Blohm & Voss BV 40, Fighter...
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    Maritime Press, 1980. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. p. 379 Whitley, M.J. (1997). Zerstörer im Zweiten Weltkrieg (in German). Motorbuch Verlag. pp. 220–221. ISBN 3-613-01426-2...
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    Junkers Ju 88 (category Aircraft first flown in 1936)
    88 B-0 10 pre-production aircraft with "stepless" fully glazed nose. Zerstörer, fighter-bomber and night fighter, based on A-series, but with sheet metal...
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  • many exported to client states 110 Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstörer fighter production 6170 1936 162 Messerschmitt Bf 162 Jaguar bomber prototype 3 1937...
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  • Navy also had a number of vessels officially designated "destroyers" (Zerstörer), but numbered sequentially in the same series as the torpedo-boats. These...
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    and 1940. The seven destroyers numbered from Z31 to Z39 were classed as Zerstörer 1936A (Mob); they were laid down in 1940 and 1941 and were slightly larger...
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  • SMS Karlsruhe (1912) Prinz Eugen (1936) Destroyers Z.9 - Z.13 (Type Zerstörer 1934A) Destroyers Z.37 - Z.39 (Type Zerstörer 1936A (Mob)) Forel (Imperial Russian...
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    (Z 20) [Type 1936] at Wilhelmshaven; Wilhelm Heidkamp (Z 21) [Type 1936] outfitting at Kiel he entire Destroyer Flotilla: 4. Zerstörer-Flottille - Fregattenkapitän...
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    bomber destroyer version. This type replaced the vulnerable twin-engine Zerstörer heavy fighters which could not survive interception by P-51 Mustangs flying...
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    used as a training ship) Although the German World War II destroyer (Zerstörer) fleet was modern and the ships were larger than conventional destroyers...
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  • Gefechtsverband – defensive aerial tactic employed against USAAF heavy bombers when Zerstörer twin-engined heavy fighters had proven too vulnerable to Allied single-engined...
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    (1983). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945: Band 2: Torpedoboote, Zerstörer, Schnellboote, Minensuchboote, Minenräumboote (in German). Koblenz: Bernard...
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    start of the battle, the twin-engined Messerschmitt Bf 110C long-range Zerstörer ("Destroyer") was also expected to engage in air-to-air combat while escorting...
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  • service of the Bundesmarine and as Fregattenkapitän commanded the destroyer Zerstörer 2 (D171), formerly USS Ringgold (DD-500), from November 1960 until September...
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    the late 1937 naval maneuvers as part of the 2nd Destroyer Division (2. Zerstörer-Division). Hermann Schoemann hosted Adolf Hitler and his retinue for a...
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  • anti-tank gun (captured from French) 47mm Schneider anti-tank gun model 1936 (captured from French) M35 Bohler and Breda 47mm guns of unclear origin Austrian...
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