Strafing
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Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons. Less commonly, the term is used by extension to describe high-speed fir
Beaufighters strafing a Vorpostenboot, 1944
A German vehicle column destroyed by ground-attack aircraft close to Arnhem, 23 September 1944
The Strafing, C. R. W. Nevinson, 1916, collection Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
A Ju 87 G with its BK 3,7 guns in gun pods
Erwin Rommel
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Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel, known as The Desert Fox, was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. He served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, as well as in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Repu
Strafing
…or 37 mm (0.79, 0.91, or 1.46 in) cannon, depending on the model. An RCAF Spitfire of 412 Squadron piloted by Charley Fox strafed the command car of Erwin Rommel on 17 July 1944 near Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery, affecting his possible participation in the 20 July 1944 Operation Valkyrie coup. In the 1950s, during…
Rommel in 1942
Lieutenant Rommel in Italy, 1917
Rommel and Adolf Hitler in Goslar, 1934
Hitler in Poland (September 1939). Rommel is on his left and Martin Bormann on his right.