Albums Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
Liaison plane is needed to maintain direct contact between the headquarters of the soldiers at the front front . Without this plane it will be impossible for senior commanders to meet with subordinates in a short period of time in order to discuss the situation or just do a brief inspection on the front . Because usually command post and headquarters are in the front area of dense forest , covered by camouflage or in remote villages , then sometimes there is no standard airstrip nearby reach . For this reason the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch , with the ability to take- off and landingnya narrow runway , the top choice of the commander 's senior staff . This aircraft can land even over rough surfaces or muddy . The photo above shows a small Russian village surrounded by forest . Bannerman is mounted in front of a house on the left indicates that the location had been used as the headquarters of an Armee - Korps . Parked in the background of a Storch , which may be used to fly the corps commander during a visit to the front or brought forward his division commanders to this place
A commander getting ready to fly along with two of his staff . Maps and papers brought signifying that they had just attended a meeting of the military . The aircraft used is a Fieseler Fi 156 C " RM + M ? " Which has a yellow stripe on the body , a common practice by Luftwaffe aircraft on the Eastern Front . One of the staff to the camera wearing cavalry equipped with leather lining . This photo was taken in Russia in the summer of 1941 or 1942
An officer climbed a Fieseler Fi 156 C " ? F + YF " . The engines had lit in preparation for a live - off across the grassy field where shepherds horse in front of him. Cockpit configuration that comes with the MG 15 machine gun cradle made of armored glass Fi 156 indicates that the variant is derived from the C series
General der Infanterie Otto Wöhler ( left ) discussing with Oberst Adolf Trowitz in Bol . Rshawez dated October 6, 1943 . Wohler is Oberbefehlshaber 8 . Armee while Trowitz is Kommandeur 57 . Infanterie - Division . Wöhler wearing the Knight's Cross he achieved dated August 14, 1943 while wearing Trowitz Deutsches Kreuz in Gold is achieved dated June 8, 1942 . Appear in the background of two aircraft Fieseler Fi 156 " Storch " being parked
General Erwin Rommel in the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch aircraft which was flying over the Italian army patrol ( who later took the photo ) in the region Fileni , Libya , 1941. Inadvertently Italian anti-aircraft units fired at Rommel's Storch boarded because expected it as Allied aircraft , but fortunately did not hit his shot !
sources :
Magazine " Luftwaffe im Focus " Spezial # 1 of 2003
www.57id.de
Liaison plane is needed to maintain direct contact between the headquarters of the soldiers at the front front . Without this plane it will be impossible for senior commanders to meet with subordinates in a short period of time in order to discuss the situation or just do a brief inspection on the front . Because usually command post and headquarters are in the front area of dense forest , covered by camouflage or in remote villages , then sometimes there is no standard airstrip nearby reach . For this reason the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch , with the ability to take- off and landingnya narrow runway , the top choice of the commander 's senior staff . This aircraft can land even over rough surfaces or muddy . The photo above shows a small Russian village surrounded by forest . Bannerman is mounted in front of a house on the left indicates that the location had been used as the headquarters of an Armee - Korps . Parked in the background of a Storch , which may be used to fly the corps commander during a visit to the front or brought forward his division commanders to this place
A commander getting ready to fly along with two of his staff . Maps and papers brought signifying that they had just attended a meeting of the military . The aircraft used is a Fieseler Fi 156 C " RM + M ? " Which has a yellow stripe on the body , a common practice by Luftwaffe aircraft on the Eastern Front . One of the staff to the camera wearing cavalry equipped with leather lining . This photo was taken in Russia in the summer of 1941 or 1942
An officer climbed a Fieseler Fi 156 C " ? F + YF " . The engines had lit in preparation for a live - off across the grassy field where shepherds horse in front of him. Cockpit configuration that comes with the MG 15 machine gun cradle made of armored glass Fi 156 indicates that the variant is derived from the C series
General der Infanterie Otto Wöhler ( left ) discussing with Oberst Adolf Trowitz in Bol . Rshawez dated October 6, 1943 . Wohler is Oberbefehlshaber 8 . Armee while Trowitz is Kommandeur 57 . Infanterie - Division . Wöhler wearing the Knight's Cross he achieved dated August 14, 1943 while wearing Trowitz Deutsches Kreuz in Gold is achieved dated June 8, 1942 . Appear in the background of two aircraft Fieseler Fi 156 " Storch " being parked
General Erwin Rommel in the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch aircraft which was flying over the Italian army patrol ( who later took the photo ) in the region Fileni , Libya , 1941. Inadvertently Italian anti-aircraft units fired at Rommel's Storch boarded because expected it as Allied aircraft , but fortunately did not hit his shot !
sources :
Magazine " Luftwaffe im Focus " Spezial # 1 of 2003
www.57id.de