They laid his body in state in the Air Ministry’s great hall and flanked it with an honor guard. Adolf Hitler renamed Luftwaffe Squadron 3 the Udet Squadron and ordered a state funeral. Reich Marshal ...

Lieut. Ernst Udet was, next to Baron von Richthofen, the highest German ace in the War. He brought down 62 Allied planes, earned the nickname “Wasp” for his habit of attacking one plane in a squadron, ...

BERLIN--Colonel General Ernst Udet, 45, the mechanical wizard behind the Luftwaffe, who developed Germany's parachute troops and the dreaded Stuka dive bombing tactics, has been killed testing "a new ...

No sooner the first aircraft rose into the sky the military took hold of the new invention As far back as World War 1 daredevil pilots engaged into the fighting and aces like Manfred von Richtofen or ...

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