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The German military submarines known as U-boats that were in action during World War II were built between 1935 and 1944, and were numbered in sequence from U-1 upwards. . Numbering was according to the sequence in which construction orders were allocated to the individual shipyards, rather than commissioning date; thus some boats carrying high numbers were commissioned well before boats with ...
1923. Retired. 1950. Primary user. Spain. Number built. >250. The Dornier Do J Wal ("whale") is a twin-engine German flying boat of the 1920s designed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke. The Do J was designated the Do 16 by the Reich Air Ministry ( RLM) under its aircraft designation system of 1933.
Storage for 228 mines. Grille was an aviso built in Nazi Germany for the Kriegsmarine (War Navy) in the mid-1930s for use as a state yacht by Adolf Hitler and other leading individuals in the Nazi regime. The ship received a light armament of three 12.7-centimeter (5 in) guns and was fitted to be capable of serving as an auxiliary minelayer.
Major German Ports. For major ports within Germany, a position of "Naval Superintendent" ( Marineintendantur) served as the port commander and answered directly to the commanders of the Navy regions. Naval superintendent positions established during World War II included Bremen, Wilhelmshaven, Kiel, and Hamburg.
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
Dornier Do 15 Wal ('Whale') reconnaissance flying-boat; Dornier Do 17 mail-plane, bomber and night-fighter; Dornier Do 18 reconnaissance bomber flying-boat, 1935; Dornier Do 19 prototype four engine heavy bomber; Dornier Do 22 torpedo bomber/reconnaissance flying-boat; Dornier Do 23 medium bomber; Dornier Do 24 flying boat; Dornier Do 215 ...
In the early 1970s, marinized versions of BMW's 2.0-litre, 4-cylinder gasoline engine were marketed as the Model 410 and 411. In 1977, BMW AG established a separate marine division, incorporated as BMW Marine GmbH. BMW Marine's head office and assembly plant were located in Verviers, Belgium . BMW Marine continued to marinize BMW's production ...
Hansa-Brandenburg W.13 - flying boat for Austria-Hungary [209] Hansa-Brandenburg W.16 - floatplane fighter [210] Hansa-Brandenburg W.17 - floatplane fighter [211] Hansa-Brandenburg W.18 - flying boat fighter [212] Hansa-Brandenburg W.19 - reconnaissance floatplane [213] Hansa-Brandenburg W.20 - flying boat fighter [214] Hansa-Brandenburg W.23