Sonderkommando "Elbe" was the name of a World War II Luftwaffe task force assigned to bring down heavy bombers by ramming them in mid-air. Its sole mission...

Africa Sonderkommandos of Einsatzgruppen Sonderkommando Dänemark, a counterintelligence unit in occupied Denmark during WWII Sonderkommando Elbe, a Luftwaffe...

Force, the ten ships assigned to Operation Ten-Go Sonderkommando Elbe (English: Special Command Elbe), a German interceptor unit Special attacks, a feature...

transmission system Sonderkommando Elbe, a German fighter task force in 1945 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Elbe. If an internal...

bombs or 1 × 300-litre (79 US gal) drop tank Avionics FuG 16Z radio Sonderkommando Elbe Related development Messerschmitt Bf 108 Messerschmitt Me 209-II...

Human torpedo Ryōji Uehara September 11 attacks Shinpūren rebellion Sonderkommando Elbe Suicide by pilot Suicide weapon Bunker Hill CV-17, NavSource Online:...

Lüneburg, Germany. The engagement marked the only combat appearance of Sonderkommando Elbe, a German Air Force squadron formed to ram Allied bombers. South...

form a "Hagakure-Tai" (Special Attack Unit), similar to the German Sonderkommando Elbe, when the war ended. Ki-200 An interceptor variant for the IJAAS...

airbase at Jüterbog and were in a position to overrun it. Kamikaze Sonderkommando Elbe Suicide bombings Deist, Wilhelm; Meier, Schreiber; et al. Germany...

desperate and deadliest mission, with the dedicated aerial ramming unit Sonderkommando Elbe. This operation involved German pilots of the unit ramming their...

1945, while desperate measures by the Luftwaffe with units like the Sonderkommando Elbe aerial ramming unit and the debut of the Heinkel He 162 Spatz jet...

bombs. In April 1945, the aerodrome served as starting place of the Sonderkommando Elbe unit, only a few days before the local authorities surrendered to...

Military History. p. vii. ISBN 1890988553. Bergström 2007, p. 116. "Sonderkommando Elbe." Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine A traveler's guide to...

"Luftwaffe's Deadliest Mission" 07/13/07 On April 7, 1945, pilots of the Sonderkommando Elbe ram their stripped-down Bf 109s into incoming American B-24 Liberator...

April 7 – WWII: The only flight of the German ramming unit known as Sonderkommando Elbe takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 B-17s and B-24s of...

Ehrler rammed a B-24 and was killed. Only a single dedicated unit, Sonderkommando Elbe, was ever formed to the point of being operational, and flew their...

over Northern Germany, while the 180-strong fighter formation of Sonderkommando Elbe attacked the bomber forces. The jets claimed some 18 victories but...

War II: The only flight of the German ramming unit known as the Sonderkommando Elbe takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 B-17s and B-24s of...

Stendal near Magdeburg under the cover name Schulungslehrgang Elbe (Training Course Elbe). The original idea was centered on a mass attack of 1,500 aircraft...

Herrmann was a leading exponent of the tactical deployment of Rammjäger Sonderkommando Elbe (ram fighters), sent into action in April 1945. Suicide pilot volunteers...

under control of the SS. Accordingly, the unit name was changed to Sonderkommando Dirlewanger ("Special Unit Dirlewanger"). As the unit strength grew...

three-quarters of the Luftwaffe pilots were shot down. It was the Sonderkommando Elbe group's first and last mission. Kantarō Suzuki replaced Kuniaki Koiso...

April 7 – The only flight of the German ramming unit known as the Sonderkommando Elbe takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 B-17s and B-24s of...

7 April 1945, the 389th Bomb Group was one of the targets of the Sonderkommando Elbe, Luftwaffe aerial ramming unit. Two B-24s were destroyed by Heinrich...

unit became known as the SS-Sonderkommando Berlin after the training units SS-Sonderkommando Zossen and SS-Sonderkommando Jüterbog merged with it under...

further training units were formed: SS-Sonderkommando Zossen on 10 May, and a second unit, designated SS-Sonderkommando Jüterbog on 8 July. These were the...

through the opening and it was clear that they fought for their lives". Sonderkommandos (special work crews forced to work at the gas chambers) wearing gas...

a group of 120 SS men on 17 March 1933 by Sepp Dietrich to form the Sonderkommando Berlin. By November 1933 the formation had 800 men, and at a commemorative...

shells. In 2014, Richter created a cycle of four paintings using the Sonderkommando photographs, which were taken in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration...

appointed the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) "Elbe" and commander of SS-Oberabschnitt "Elbe," both headquartered in Dresden. On 15 April 1941, he...