Wilhelm Balthasar was a German Luftwaffe military aviator and wing commander during World War II. As a fighter ace, he is credited with seven aerial victories during the Spanish Civil War and further 40 aerial victories on the Western Front of World War II. He flew about 300 combat missions during World War II in addition to 465 in Spain.
Balthasar as a Hauptmann
August and Wilhelm Balthasar's grave at the German War Cemetery Illies
Fulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (Kreis). In 1990, the city hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival.
Aerial view of the city center
The army gate, built around 1150, on the city side of the city palace, from which you walked past the abbot's castle out of the city to get to the Via Regia
St Boniface baptizing and undergoing martyrdom – from the Sacramentary of Fulda
Fulda in the 16th century