Warfare in Pictures Gallery

SS Graffiti carved into the outside walls of Chateau du Fou discovered by BHTV whilst filming the Operation Bulbasket DVD. Chateau du Fou was used as a replacement barracks, by 17 SS Pz Gren Div, after the bombing of Bonneuil- Matours on the 14/15 July 1944. Chateau du Fou was itself bombed on 2 Aug
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Dates in History

First flight of the first liquid-fuelled rocket aircraft

20th June 1939

The Heinkel He 176 was a German rocket-powered aircraft. It was the world’s first aircraft to be propelled solely by a liquid-fuelled rocket, making its first powered flight on 20 June 1939 with Erich Warsitz at the controls.

On 27 August 1939, Flugkapitan Erich Warsitz became the first man to fly a jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178 and in June of the same year he flew the first liquid-fuel rocket aircraft, the Heinkel He 176. His legendary flying skills enabled him to assist the pioneering German aircraft… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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