Horst Rudat

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Horst Rudat
Born (1920-05-03)3 May 1920
Wirtkallen, district Insterburg, East Prussia
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Laaber, Germany
Allegiance  Nazi Germany (to 1945)
 West Germany
Service/branch Balkenkreuz.svg Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht)
Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg Luftwaffe (Bundeswehr)
Years of service –1945, 1956–1980
Rank Hauptmann (Wehrmacht)
Generalmajor (Bundeswehr)
Unit KG 55, KG 200
Commands held II./KG 200
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Horst Rudat (born 3 May 1920 in Wirtkallen, district Insterburg, East Prussia; died 31 August 1982 in Laaber/Waldelzerberg) was a German World War II Luftwaffe bomber pilot. After the war he joined the Bundeswehr and attained the rank of Generalmajor.

In the weeks following Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France, Hauptmann Rudat was tasked with the leadership of a task force in 2./Kampfgeschwader 101. The task force was experimenting with the Mistel, a Luftwaffe aircraft bombing system, based broadly on the parasite aircraft concept. Rudat led a formation of 4 Mistel aircraft against the invasion fleet of off Normandy in the night of 24/25 June 1944. The HMS Nith, a British "River Class" frigate, was damaged killing nine of her crew.[1]

Awards

References

Citations

  1. Ford 2000, pp. 50–51.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kaiser 2011, p. 90.
  3. Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 389.
  4. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 366.
  5. Scherzer 2007, p. 643.

Bibliography

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  • Ford, Roger (2000). Germany's Secret Weapons in World War II. Zenith Imprint. ISBN 0-7603-0847-0.
  • Forsyth, Robert (2001). Mistel - German Composite Aircraft and Operations 1942-1945. Classic Publications Limited. ISBN 1-903223-09-1.
  • Kaiser, Jochen (2011). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kampfflieger—Band 2 (in German and English). Bad Zwischenahn, Germany: Luftfahrtverlag-Start. ISBN 978-3-941437-09-8.
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Military offices
Preceded by
Oberstleutnant Wilhelm Batz
Commander of Lufttransportgeschwader 63
1 February 1964 – March 1971
Succeeded by
Oberst Dr. Heinz-Ulrich Beuther


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