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Luftwaffe
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Luft·waf·fe  (lftväf)
n.
The German air force before and during World War II.
[German : Luft, air (from Middle High German, from Old High German) + Waffe, weapon (from Middle High German wfen, from Old High German waffan).]
Luftwaffe German [ˈlʊftvafə]
n
(Military) the German Air Force
[German, literally: air weapon]
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Noun1.Luftwaffe - the German airforce
German Luftwaffe
air force, airforce - the airborne branch of a country's armed forces
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”; the 1917 poster imploring Americans to buy war bonds or else the Imperial German Air Service will decapitate and then roast Lady Liberty.
Apocalypse Nu? by Mark Lotto / The New York Observer
The biplane, though employed by early pioneers like the Wright Brothers and Cody, only really established its dominance at the expense of the monoplane on the eve of the 1914-18 War, following a number of air crashes that indicated structural weakness in the monoplane format: in fact the first machine-gun armed single-seat fighter aircraft in both the French and the German Air Services were monoplane types, though soon replaced by more powerful and more manoeuvrable biplanes.
Images from a century of aviation by Harvey, A.D. / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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