The Berlin airlift begins.
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AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY
8 December 1938 – German aircraft carrier ´Graf Zeppelin´ is launched
On 8th December 1938, the only German aircraft carrier ´Graf Zeppelin´ was launched in Kiel. After the Nazis came to power in Germany, expansion of the Kriegsmarine (the German Navy) became one of the priorities […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom II
McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom II (c/n 4330, 37+01, Luftwaffe), flying display at Phantom Pharewell retirement event, Wittmundhafen, June 2013. Exactly fifty-two years ago, in January of 1971, the book with a story of German Phantom […]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY
23 October 1987 – F-104 Starfighter was withdrawn from Luftwaffe
The last Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was withdrawn from the active service in Luftwaffe (West German Air Force) The Jagdbombergeschwader 34 ´Allgäu´, based at Memmingen in Bayern, was the last Luftwaffe combat squadron to withdraw the […]