Fieseler Fi 156

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
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