• Otto Hans "Hannes" Trautloft (3 March 1912 – 12 January 1995) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and...
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  • journalist Hannes Swoboda (born 1946), Austrian politician Hannes Taljaard (born 1971), South African classical music composer Hannes Trautloft (1912–1995)...
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    Hans-Ekkehard Bob, Max-Hellmuth Ostermann, Hugo Broch, Horst Ademeit and Hannes Trautloft. JG 54 participated in the Invasion of Poland in 1939, and the Battle...
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    leadership of Leutnant Hannes Trautloft J/88 arrived by sea in August 1936. While the Spanish Air Force pilots trained, Trautloft and the other pilots became...
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    (including Hannes Trautloft) made contact with the airmen and also spoke to Lamason. Convinced the airmen were not spies, but bona-fide airmen, Trautloft reported...
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    Adolf Galland Hajo Herrmann Werner Mölders Hugo Sperrle, commander Hannes Trautloft Heinrich Trettner Wolfram von Richthofen, commander Wilhelm Ritter...
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    Brauchitsch, Wolfgang Falck, Günther Radusch, Ralph von Rettberg and Hannes Trautloft. Lützow graduated from the DVS on 19 February 1932. In late September...
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  • Flieger. The group of officers included spokesman Günther Lützow, Hannes Trautloft, Eduard Neumann, Gustav Rödel, and Johannes Steinhoff. According to...
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    Schob (6) Gotthard Handrick (5) Wolfgang Lippert (5) Günther Lützow (5) Joachim Schlichting (5) Hannes Trautloft (5) List of Spanish Civil War flying aces...
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    encountered large numbers of Bf 109s from Jagdgeschwader 51 led by Hannes Trautloft. Finucane claimed a Bf 109 shot down and damaged another, leaving the...
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    Alois Stoeckl Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma* Horst Tietzen Werner Töniges Hannes Trautloft Heinrich Trettner Joachim Wandel Kurt Weyher Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke Joachim...
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  • issuing the airmen with inmate uniforms with no serial numbers. Later, Hannes Trautloft an officer from the Luftwaffe inspecting Allied bomb damage came across...
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    staff officers Günther Lützow, Wolfgang Falck, Günther Radusch and Hannes Trautloft. In 1932, he joined a cavalry regiment of the army, and in 1934 was...
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    1 December 1940. JG 54 at the time was under the command of Major Hannes Trautloft. Nowotny was transferred again, this time to the 9. Staffel (9th squadron)...
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    subordinated to Luftflotte 2. The unit's commanders included Hauptmann Hannes Trautloft, from 19 September 1939 to 4 July 1940. Roba, Jean-Louis (July–August...
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    crossed Dover. The Do 17s were escorted by ZG 26 while III./JG 51 led by Hannes Trautloft escorted the Ju 88s. The German bombers had flown east of Canterbury...
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  • youngest and lowliest NCO, to do the same. Hans Philipp in a letter to Hannes Trautloft, 4 October 1943 On 8 October 1943, the US Eighth Air Force attacked...
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  • Eastern Front. The transfer request had been made by Oberstleutnant Hannes Trautloft, the Geschwaderkommodore (wing commander) of JG 54, a friend of Hahn...
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    /Infanterie-Regiment 90 5 August 1940 Awarded 67th Oak Leaves 23 January 1942 — Hannes Trautloft Luftwaffe 15-LMajor Geschwaderkommodore of Jagdgeschwader 54 27 July...
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    54 (JG 54—54th Fighter Wing) as a commander-in-training under Major Hannes Trautloft. On 1 May 1942, Gollob was officially appointed Geschwaderkommodore...
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  • were transferred to the POW camp. Years later veterans identified Hannes Trautloft from photos as one of the officers and credited him with saving their...
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    Graf, along with Günther Lützow, Eduard Neumann, Gustav Rödel and Hannes Trautloft. Jobst married Wolfgang Kieling in 1950 but committed suicide in October...
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    loss over Kingisepp in action with 6 IAP. Commanding officer, JG 54, Hannes Trautloft, believed the ZG 26 attacks were having an impact. 24 Bf 110s from...
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    (1912–1945) 11 August 1942 17 December 1943 1 year, 128 days 2 Trautloft, HannesOberst Hannes Trautloft (1912–1995) 17 December 1943 26 January 1945 1 year, 40 days...
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    known as the Kanalkampf. 20 Bf 109s of III./JG 51 led by Hauptmann Hannes Trautloft and 30 Bf 110 C of I./Zerstörergeschwader 26 escorted 20 Dornier Do...
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     • Hauptmann Hannes Trautloft 4 July 1940 – 24 August 1940  • Hauptmann Walter Oesau 25 August 1940 – 10 November 1940  • Hauptmann Richard Leppla 11 November...
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  • Luftwaffe 54 Heinz Vinke †  Germany Luftwaffe 54 Night fighter ace Hannes Trautloft  Germany Luftwaffe 53 +5 in Spanish Civil War August Geiger †  Germany...
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  • high-ranking fighter pilot leaders which included Ihlefeld, Günther Lützow, Hannes Trautloft, Hermann Graf, Gerhard Michalski, Helmut Bennemann, Kurt Bühligen and...
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  • Schob (6) Gotthard Handrick (5) Wolfgang Lippert (5) Günther Lützow (5) Joachim Schlichting (5) Hannes Trautloft (5) List of Spanish Civil War flying aces...
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  • Brauchitsch, Günther Radusch, Günther Lützow, Ralph von Rettberg and Hannes Trautloft. Falck graduated from the DVS on 19 February 1932. In February 1933...
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