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The Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈlʊftˌʃtʁaɪtkʁɛftə], German Air Combat Forces) – known before October 1916 as Die Fliegertruppen des deutschen Kaiserreiches (The Imperial German Air Service, lit. "The flying troops of the German Kaiser’s Reich") – was the air arm of the Imperial German Army. [1]
During the First World War, the German Air Force lost 4,578 airmen, 299 ground crew and 1,962 men, who were killed in accidents in Germany. The loss of aircraft was 3,128 machines. After the capitulation of the German Reich and the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles Germany was banned an air force.
This article is about the German and West German air force after World War II. For the World War II air force of Germany, see Luftwaffe. For the World War I Army-affiliated air force of Germany, see Luftstreitkräfte. For the air force of East Germany, see Air Forces of the National People's Army.
Two German military aviators, Leutnants Otto Parschau and Kurt Wintgens, worked for the Fokker firm during the spring of 1915, demonstrating the revolutionary feature of the forward-firing synchronised machine gun to the embryonic force of Fliegertruppe pilots of the German Empire.
The air force, though not an independent arm of the military, developed from an instrument of reconnaissance into a full combat force, fighting the enemy’s air force, supporting ground operations, and bombing installations and cities beyond the frontline.
17 Νοε 2015 · Germany began organizing an aviation service during the last few years of peace prior to the outbreak of World War I. At the beginning, there were two types of units making up the Luftfahrtruppe (Aviation Troops): the Feld Flieger- Abteilung (Field Flying Section), a mobile unit equipped with two-seat aircraft, and the Festungs Flieger ...
Aviation in World War I, use and development of military aircraft in World War I (1914–18). At the start of World War I the German armed forces had 10 zeppelins and three smaller airships, but this impressive offensive capability was largely offset by the highly explosive nature of the hydrogen gas.
