Luftwaffe
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9.5
- proper noun
- /ˈlʊftˌwɑfə/
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Luftwaffe
- During World War II, the Luftwaffe conducted extensive bombing raids over Britain.
Examples
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Even though the Luftwaffe was well defeated by D-Day, air support would play a pivotal role in D-Day operations.
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His Majesty the King, accompanied by Mr Churchill, toured the devastated streets of Coventry that has suffered the most indiscriminate and vicious attacks of Hitler's Luftwaffe.
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For more than 40 years, Charlie Brown wanted to find the Luftwaffe pilot who saved the crew.
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Years after the war ended, former Luftwaffe officers who had become executives
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On September the 7th, the Luftwaffe changed tactics.
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After the British struck Munich, Germany, on November 8, the Luftwaffe hit Coventry, England.
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On April 6th, 1941, at dawn, Belgrade was relentlessly bombed by the Luftwaffe.
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Guernica, immortalized by Picasso after the German Luftwaffe first tested its terror techniques on a civilian population, is located in the land of the Basques.
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When Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, more than 1,650 people were killed and nearly 900 wounded.
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Having volunteered for the Luftwaffe in 1939, he worked mostly as a meteorologist at airfields—and also at the notorious Peenemünde rocket center.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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2.8
A branch of a country's military that uses planes to fight and protect the country
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9.1
The air force of Germany, including the one that flew planes in World War II
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Etymology
The word Luftwaffe comes from German parts Luft ('air') and Waffe ('weapon'); think of the English word weapon. So it means 'air weapon' and became the name for Germany's air force, especially during World War II.