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Oblt. Wolfgang Wollenweber, R.I.P

German Air Force pilot, Oblt. Wolfgang Wollenweber March 13, 1922 - October 30, 2022 From Fighter Squadron 5, called "Eismeer" and 7, with 4th air victories during WWII. Flew: ME-110 G-2, Bf-110 F-2, HE - 162 A-1, HE - 162 A-2, made his last flights on October 30, 2022, rest in peace.

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American Bombers and Fighters tested by the Swiss Air Force
A-2 Jacket of Tail Gunner S/Sgt Thomas P. Hickey B-17G Shoo Shoo Baby
Shoo Shoo Baby song
B-17 remains were recovered from Greifensee Lake
B-17G Little Chub up-date B-17 Greifensee 24. April 1944
B-17G Little Chub up-date April 2021
Home of the B-17G Little Chub Grafton Underwood
What bomber pilot Jimmy Stewart had to do with pilot 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey of the B-17 Little Chub?
B-17G emergency landing Dübendorf, Switzerland, 24 April 1944
On Hitler's birthday, Switzerland beats the Nazi eleven
On April 20th, 1945, the last Flying Fortress landed in Switzerland.
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Wanted Swiss - Internees 1943 -1945 from the US Army Air Force
B-24 Pursuit Curves Serial. No. 44-49312
Col. (Ret.) Fred C. Seals, celebrates 102nd birthday April 9th
Col. Ret. Fred C. Seals, 102nd Birthday, born April 9, 1922
Pilot: 1st Lt Robert W. Meyer Bob Meyer spricht mit Bruce Baur B-17 am 16. März 1944 Lake Zug
I just wanted to be an aviator
The Bombing of Schaffhausen
Bombs away - documentary Film about the bombing of Schaffhausen at 1. April 1944
Private Snafu Cartoon Series WWII
Crash boats in the US Army Air Force and US Navy
8th Air Force Medical Corps Uniform from Captain Milton Willner
US- Pilot with Swiss roots
Copilot F/O Robert (Bob) A. Long
Rhine crossing, 3rd US – Army, 22 March 22nd, 1945 in Nierstein, Germany
B-25J Ponte Tresa Crashed in Italy March 21st, 1945, Crew in Switzerland
Barely any fuel left, B-24 Liberator landing Dübendorf 18th March 1944
Hardly any more fuel March 18th, 1944, Part II
80 years ago B-17G emergency landing on Lake Zug, Switzerland
SWISS INTERNEES VISIT 1996
RECOVERY OF THE B-17 «LONESOME POLECAT» FROM THE LAKE OF ZUG IN 1952
Scrap Dealer Martin Schaffner, the Bomber Schaffner
Crash into Lake Zug 75 years ago March 16, 1944
The legendary 6888th Postal Battalion
Lord Haw-Haw, Germany Calling Germany Calling.
Germany Calling Lord Haw Haw
Germany Calling Lord Haw Haw
Germany Calling Lord Haw Haw
Interview with the co-pilot: 2nd Lt Nelson H. Willingham
Bombing of Basel, March 4th, 1945
On March 4th, 1945, bombs fell on Zurich
The Walt Disney Studios and World War II
B-24 crash Meggen-Adligenswil, February 27, 1945
B-17 crash Trimbach, Switzerland 27.02.1945
Blocked Engines, February 27th, 1945
The B-17G Dottie G and Masters of the Air
The new Movie on Apple TV+, Masters of the Air
Masters of the Air, what about the Swiss- internees?
First B-17 G in Switzerland, February 25th, 1944
B-17G, Ermensee, February 25, 1945 / P-47 Thunderbolt April 21, 1945 near Bologna, Italy
Recovery of the P-47 Thunderbolt
American Cemetery and Memorial Florence, Italy 1Lt. Loren Hintz
Bombs on Stein am Rhein
US-Bomber Repair-Shop Duebendorf Switzerland
Elizabeth Lee Miller, Lady Penrose, supermodel and war photographer.
The Second World War told from a woman's perspective.
Franz von Werra - German Luftwaffe pilot from Switzerland
The B-25J The Big Swing hit by flak during the attack on the Brenner Line on February 7, 1945.
Bomber Camp May 2.-4. 2024 Stockton, California
Winston Churchill and Switzerland
Churchill Monument in Oberhofen on Lake Thun
Comedian Harmonists
Happy Birthday Ray Anthony!
Captain Glenn Miller und the US - Army Air Force Orchestra
THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE GREATEST GENERATION
Brig. Gen. C.E. Bud Anderson 102 Birthday Celebration
RAF Flying Officer George Stewart, Mosquito Pilot
Brigadier General Clarence Bud Anderson
Congratulations on the promotion.
75 years have passed
Lili Marleen, is the title of an international German soldier song.
German singer and actress Marlene Dietrich
Radio London / BBC
Radio London / BBC
New Year's Eve 1944 / New Year 1945 Palace Hotel Wengen
The Melody Men Swiss Internee Orchestra Adleboden
Swiss - Internee Hockeyteam Camp Maloney Adelboden
B-24 Downing in Würenlingen, Christmas, 1944
Bombing of Thayngen, December 25th, 1944
Christmas 2023
The United States Army Band Pershing's Own
Jimmy Stewart dedicated the Film, It's a Wonderful Life? to pilot 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey.
Swiss Internees history, the Swiss Movie, The last chance
78 years ago, 9. Dezember 1945 general G. S. Patton's fateful car accident
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, December 7, 2023
Monuments Men - Unusual Heroes
Forged documents that saved lives, the forgers
The Crystal Radio from Stalag 17
Receiver, MCR-1 for resistance organizations like FFI, or SOE, SAS.
Veterans Day, 11 November 2023
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Vevey, Switzerland
Let us never forget the pilots / bomber crews of the Royal Air Force!
Let us never forget you!
From Indianapolis 500 winner in 1925, to inspection chief of the bombers that crash-landed in Switzerland.
Halloween on the Home Front 1942 to 1944
The two last living holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Luftwaffe - Lieutenant Hugo Broch
Col. Jimmy Stewart
Bernese aviation pioneer Rosa Martha Rossi
The Krug P-47 Thunderbolt October 15th, 1944 Laufen
When the flying US fortress suddenly fell from the sky in Aesch 14 October 1943
Sleepless in the war with Airmanchocolate
Bomber Exhibition at Dübendorf Civil Airfield October 5-21-1945
1. Oktober 1943, B-17 Sugar Foot
A deal with Germany
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
Luftwaffe Lieutenant Ulrich Steinhilper
How did the USAAF chill the Whisky in WWII?
The 448th Bomb Group Collection and Seething Control Tower.
Two American scallywags in Davos 1944
Prisoners of War and Missing in Action Day September 15th, 2023
In honor of Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth a B- 17 christened Rose of York
Grand Master Taizou Nakamura from Japan visit the B -17 Museum Utzenstorf
Rest In Peace Queen Elizabeth II, 8. September 2022
B-24H Liberator exhibition in Basel-Birsfelden September 1945
Pilot from Utzenstorf (Switzerland) shot down by the Americans.
Interview by Waist Gunner: S/Sgt. Ernest M. Feibusch, B-17 Blues in the Night
Air battles, bombing raids between the USA and Switzerland in WWII
The Battle of Britain
JAK-9 emergency landing at Dübendorf airfield August 25, 1945
USAAF SWISS INTERNEES CAMP ADELBODEN 1943-1945 CAMP MALONEY
WWII commemorative plaque Adelboden, Switzerland
Commemoration 80 years B-17 emergency landing Utzenstorf August 17, 2023
Commemoration 80 years B-17 emergency landing Utzenstorf August 17, 2023
First B-17 Emergency Landings in Switzerland, Utzenstorf, August 17th, 1943
The story of the Tail Gunner: Sgt. Ricardo Robledo of the B-17F - 42-30315 - Battle Queen
Movie Aerial Gunner, Tail Gunner Sgt. Ricardo Robledo
B-17F emergency landing Utzenstorf 17. August 1943, Colored photo
TRACES OF TIME HEROES FROM HEAVEN
The Mascot of the Bomb Squadron of the B-17F Utzenstorf, 17. August 1943
390th Bomb Group Airfield Framlingham Station 153 Part I
390th Bomb Group Airfield Framlingham Station 153 Part II
Mission Schweinfurt and Regensburg August 17th 1943
Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission 17. August 1943
B -17 Flying Fortress HIGH LIFE
First B-24 in Switzerland crashed 13 August 1943
B-24 Death Dealer up-date February 2021, Part I
B-24 Death Dealer up-date April 2021, Part II
Purple Heart Day August 7, 2023
August 1 - Swiss National Day
Lipstick Day July 29 2023
What happened to the bombers after their return to England / USA?
The scrapping of the Bombers
Emergency Landing at Duebendorf Switzerland during WW II
Battlin' Baby Film work continues...
Bätterkinden’s Impressive Rendez-vous with History
Battlin` Baby shoot schedule Seething, England
Riggisberg Bombing July 13th, 1943
July 12, 1862 - Medal of Honor Created
B-17 CRASH SITE SCHLAPPINTAL July 12th, 1944
The Life and Death of the Tequila Daisy
Independence Day July 4th 2023
Morane-Saulnier D.3801, MS.406, Swiss Air Force intercepts USAAF B-24 Liberator.
SWISS CENTRAL AIRPORT UTZENSTORF PROJECT
Project Utzenstorf Airport, Switzerland
The appeal of General de Gaulle on 18 June 1940
Return to East Anglia
Nose - type / part - type on bombers and fighter planes
Swiss Fighter Pilot Hans Giger
79 Years D-Day 6 June 1944
Lt. Col. David Hamilton is America’s last living Pathfinder pilot
German machine gunner Franz Gockel
Lieutenant Richard Todd and the Pegasus Bridge D-Day 1944
June 4th 1940, the Swiss- and German Air Forces in air combat over the Jura
When Messerschmitts fought Messerschmitts.
National Memorial Day Concert 2023
Memorial Day May 28th, 2023, American Cemetery Epinal, France
Memorial Day, Cemetery Münsingen, Switzerland, May 26, 2023
THE AMERICAN CEMETERY IN MÜNSINGEN 1944 TO 1945
Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial
US burial flag
The Riderless Horse
The Battlefield Cross
Missing Man- Formation
Missing Man Table
P-51B Mustang Crash near Lütisburg 27 May 27th , 1944
North American P-51 Mustang, Mustangs over Switzerland 1948 - 1957
Armed Forces Day, May 20th, 2023
B-17F Memphis Belle
Major Robert K. Morgan, Pilot B-17F Memphis Belle
The Nose art of the B-17F Memphis Belle
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress dockumentary Film
Snow in May 1940 Air combat over Switzerland.
B-24 crash Jegenstorf 11 May 1944, escape as Farmer and Farmer's wife
Victory of Europe and Switzerland
Victory of Europe
The VE Day Commemorative Medal
Where does the Victory sign come from ?
Wanted relatives of the B-17F Battle Queen - Peg of my Heart
Escort - destroyer Rolf, which was in service with the US Navy from 1944 to 1946.
Uniform of EM1c Joseph Tennant US Navy, USS Monticello + USS Rolf, Atlantic + Pacific
Cargo ship Monticello II (AP-61) US Navy
USS Rolf (DE-362) Areas With Asbestos Exposure
Return to Ramitelli Airfield, World Film Premiere 9. Februar 2023
Tuskegee Airmen
Wanted! Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale
B-17F crash at Pavone del Mella, Italy, 5 crew members interned in Switzerland.
Attention wanted, everything about the French Resistance FFI in WWII!
The United States Army Band Pershing's Own 2022 American Holiday Festival
Tragic accident at the Wings over Dallas Air Show.
Oblt. Wolfgang Wollenweber, R.I.P
History of B-17 engine wanted!
Goodbye, Your Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
The Angel of Death from Adelboden - Espionage for the Nazi Regime
Celebration of life for Utah's Berlin Candy Bomber
It's a wonderful life
Col. Dick Cole, the last Doolittle Raider
Col. Joe Peterburs and the Tiger of the Tundra Walter Schuck
Walter Schuck, Tiger of the Tundra
Wanted RAF - Internees 1939 -1945 from the Royal Air Force
Wanted in Switzerland Interned 1939 -1945 by the German Air Force
Brig. Gen. Robert Bob Cardenas passed away, March 10, 2022 in San Diego. R.I.P.
Brigadier General Robert Bob L. Cardenas
BRIGADIER GENERAL ROBERT L. BOB CARDENAS
Poor Man's Fight, Roman
Remembered Col. Gail S. Halvorsen, also known as the Candy Bomber
Gail Halvorsen's Funeral and Graveside Services
Colonel (ret.) Gail S. Halvorsen has passed away at the blessed age of 101 years old.
Airlift pilot Gail Halvorsen up- date 07.01.2021
Col. Gail S. Halvorsen the Candy Bomber
Col. Gail Halvorsen Uncle Wiggle Wing
GAIL HALVORSEN
US European Air Offensive 1943-1945 – Commemorative Medal
Church window from the 384th Bomb Group at Grafton Underwood GB
How an Indian soldier came to Adelboden during the Second World War.
Who knows the story about this A-2 Jacket ?
Chuck Yeager memorial service January 15, 2021.
General Charles Elwood Chuck Yeager 13. Februar 1923 - 7. Dezember 2020 RIP
In Memory of Radio: S/Sgt. Alva H. Moss October 25, 1923 - July 11, 2021.
Interview von S/Sgt. Alva H. Moos
Prisoner of War Medal Presentation Ceremony Part I
Prisoner of War Medal Presentation Ceremony Part II
Forgotten WWII POWs Finally Honored part I
Forgotten WWII POWs Finally Honored, part II
EMERGENCY LANDING
Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, Pilot B-29 Enola Gay
Luftwaffe -Captain Günther Rall
Luftwaffe- Major Hajo Herrmann
Luftwaffe - Major Hans-Ekkehard Bob
Pure time spirit, a nice airlift video of the Ballroom Kings from Berlin.
Swiss-Internees Monument Davos
Bernice Falk Haydu Women Airforce Service Pilotin (WASP)
BERNICE FALK HAYDU WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTIN (WASP)
RIP Peter Brown Chief Engineer on the B-17G Sally B
75 years B-17 Sally - B, 1945 - 2020
BOEING B-17 FLYING FORTRESS DISPLAY AIR 14 PAYERNE
Wanted tactical codes of aircraft in WWII. Who can help?
Bf 109 or Me 109?
RIP Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Swiss-Internees Wing-Pin Wengen 1943 -1945
Swiss-Internees Wing-Pin Adelboden 1943 -1945
Die Swiss-Internees Assoc. Inc Wing-Pin 1986
Swiss-Internees Patch
Attention!
Who can help? Stalag 304 IV-H
Who can help? Stalag XIII B
Special transport of the US Navy for the 75th anniversary of the end of the war - celebration in Hawaii
Attention Wanted!
G.I.S IN SWITZERLAND 1946 -1949
Siblings Schmid - How is Mister Yankee
We will all meet again!
ATTENTION WANTED
U.S.A.A.F. Swiss Commemorative Plaque
Engineer: T/Sgt Edward W. Halliburton RIP
American War Memorials Overseas, Inc.
THE DAWN OF THE SWISS AIR FORCE, 100 YEARS AGO
Swiss - Inernees memorial plate for the pilots / bomber crews in Georgia, USA
The deaf Hans Stucki, heavyweight wrestler / swinger and US president, Lyndon B. Johnsen
For this purpose the weapons found in Oftringen were used 27.04.2021
Battle Bomb sd2 Detonated in Buchs AG, September 4th, 2019
Report Unexploded Bombs
The Butterfly Bomb sd2
US-Army Express delivery van Dodge 1/2 ton pickup WC-38 from 1941
DC-3 crashed on the Gaulig glacier, birth of Swiss Air-Rescue.
Recovery of the Dakota wreckage on the Gauligletscher begins.
From upper lieutenant who flew to Solothurn during WWI to commander-in-chief of Luftflotte 6
World War I, second emergency landing of an American fighter on September 12, 1918, Fahy
World War I, First emergency landing of an American fighter on June 25, 1918, Deitingen
Riddle about the John F. Kennedy memorial stone on the Belpberg
Christmas 1915
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