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- The Condor Legion was the expeditionary force of soldiers and airmen sent by Hitler to aid Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The Germans used the war as an opportunity to develop equipment and tactics, and their force included not only instructors, but also combat units of artillery, tanks and aircraft.
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The Condor Legion (German: Legion Condor) was a unit of military personnel from the air force and army of Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht which served with the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War.
Condor Legion, a unit of the German air force, or Luftwaffe, detailed by Hermann Göring for special duty with General Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). It was sent to Franco on the condition that it stay under German command.
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Jun 12, 2006 · During the first week of July 1937, the German Condor Legion launched a spectacular coordinated attack on Spanish Republican forces at the Battle of Brunete, about 15 miles west of Madrid. Messerschmitt Bf-109B fighters flew top cover to maintain air superiority while Heinkel He-111 bombers attacked both strategic and tactical targets.
Feb 1, 2013 · The Condor Legion went home May 28 and marched in review before Hitler and other officials in a huge parade in Berlin June 6 that reunited 14,000 veterans of the war in Spain. Three months later, Germany invaded Poland to begin World War II. Sperrle and von Richtofen were promoted to field marshal.
The Republican navy had essentially sealed his half of the uprising on the southern side of the strait of Gibraltar and he had no feasible way of crossing in a timely fashion. By the time he ...
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Most notorious of those horrors was the Condor Legion’s bombing and destruction of a small Basque town in northern Spain, which inspired Pablo Picasso to paint what is perhaps his most famous painting, Guernica.
Nov 15, 2022 · Dressed in white linen suits, the undercover legionnaires lounged and played shuffleboard on the decks of leisure ships before disembarking onto Spanish soil. Known for their dash and elan, the elite pilots of the Condor Legion would display this flair in combat as well as during off-duty hours.
