Luftwaffe

Speech parts

1. Luftwaffe - Noun

2. Luftwaffe - Proper noun

Meaning

the German airforce

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

German Luftwaffe faa airforce aviation kraut hessian RAF aircraft airfield airpower faci german air arm luffwaffe german aerial corps german aerial forces
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Hypernyms

air force airforce

Examples

Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses. Franz Halder

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite. Adolf Galland

We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice. Noam Chomsky

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe. Franz Halder

24 German F-4F Phantom IIs were operated by the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing of the USAF at Holloman AFB to train Luftwaffe crews until December 2004. Source: Internet

Additionally, Mussolini ordered a voluntary army, the Corpo Truppe Volontarie (CTV) of some 12,000 Italians of fully motorised units to Seville and Hitler added to them a professional squadron from the Luftwaffe (2JG/88) with about 24 planes. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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