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- A NECESSARY EXPLANATION: LSE Luftwaffe Sondereinheit— Air Raid Special Unit† (source)
- Military units drilled openly, and though powered aircraft were forbidden under the Versailles Treaty, the strength of the burgeoning Luftwaffe was on conspicuous display over an airfield, where gliders swooped over impressed tourists and Hitler Youth.† (source)
- Still others would note that it snowed on twenty-eight of the thirty-one days that December, effectively grounding the Luftwaffe.† (source)
- When the German Luftwaffe bombed London in December 1940, Emma and her foster family took cover in an air-raid shelter.† (source)
- Consecrated on the tenth of February in 1185 by Heraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Temple Church survived eight centuries of political turmoil, the Great Fire of London, and the First World War, only to be heavily damaged by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs in 1940.† (source)
- German tanks had crossed the border into Poland; the Luftwaffe, the German air force, had attacked a Polish border town, and the invasion of Poland by the Germans had begun.† (source)
- Eight Luftwaffe men, none of whom will survive the hour, singing a love song to their queen.† (source)
- A perfect day for the Luftwaffe.† (source)
- Heinz Haber, another key Tomorrowland adviser — and eventually the chief scientific consultant to Walt Disney Productions — spent much of World War II conducting research on high-speed, high-altitude flight for the Luftwaffe Institute for Aviation Medicine.† (source)
- After much to-ing and fro-ing they came to the firm conclusion that a teacher with so unmistakably German a name must be German herself, and her piano-playing was a secret code through which she sent signals to the Luftwaffe pilots telling them where to drop their bombs.† (source)
- And in a moment of crisis, when someone very high up asks, 'Can you really be absolutely certain that this particular Luftwaffe Fliegerkorps [German air force squadron] is outside of Tobruk and not in Italy?' you can answer, 'Yes, that was Oscar, we are absolutely sure.'† (source)
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- 'There's no more Luftwaffe left!' he wailed.† (source)
- The race through "London," "Coventry" and "Portsmouth" could only be likened to the newsreel footage from World War II depicting the carnage hurled down on Great Britain by the Luftwaffe, compounded by first the screaming and then the silent terror of the V-2 and V-5 rockets.† (source)
- I had a ceremonial Luftwaffe saber, still do.† (source)
- Overhead a squadron of Luftwaffe bombers droned deafeningly eastward toward Russia, flying very low—five, ten, then twenty monster machines spreading their vulturous shapes against the sky.† (source)
- Probably the Luftwaffe men upstairs are already scrabbling through wreckage to help.† (source)
- He was answerable for the Luftwaffe's freedom of the skies, for every Stuka attack, every dead friend.† (source)
- It was a Luftwaffe ceremonial saber.† (source)
- Gaining the Commandant's confidence, she planned to suggest to him that he could use his immense authority to have a lovely blond German-speaking Polish boy with Caucasian freckles and cornflower-blue eyes and the chiseled profile of a fledgling Luftwaffe pilot painlessly transferred from the Children's Camp to some nearby bureaucratic unit in Cracow or Katowice or Wroclaw or wherever, which would then arrange for his transport to shelter and safety in Germany.† (source)
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