24 HOURS HEINKEL mechanical wristwatch. Dial background with German Luftwaffe
Award Cross insignia and Jet-fighter He-280 front image.
Case is 37 mm (40 mm inc.crown) x h 9 mm
Mechanical 40h winding
24-hour dial
Case - stainless alloy neusilber
16 Ruby jewels
Comes with leather band
The Heinkel He 280 was the first jet-powered fighter aircraft built in the
world. It was inspired by Ernst Heinkel's emphasis on research into high-speed
flight and built on the company's experience with its He 178 jet prototype.
The He 280 never entered mass production as a combination of technical and political
factors led to it being passed over in favour of the Messerschmitt Me 262. Only
nine were ever built. The Luftwaffe (German: "air force") is the commonly used
term for the German air force. The history of the Luftwaffe began in 1910 with
the founding of the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkrafte), yet
it has not been continuous owing to the fact that Germany lost both World Wars
(1914-1918 and 1939-1945). As a result, the Germans had no military air force
between 1918 and 1935 and again between 1945 and 1955. The Luftwaffe is synonymous
as being the air force which, in 1939-1940, helped the German army to astonishingly
rapid success in both Eastern and Western Europe, but which failed to win control
of the skies over England. Later on, despite its best efforts, it could not
prevent the defeat of the Third Reich either by day or by night owing to constant
Allied bombing of Germany's factories and cities by overwhelming numbers of
bombers based in England. Nor could it hold up the advances of the Soviet armies
from the East as numbers of available German aircraft dwindled in the face of
ever-growing numbers of Soviet aircraft. The Luftwaffe was notable in putting
the world's first jet fighter and the world's only rocket-powered fighter into
action during the war. Between 1955 and 1990, there were two German "air forces"
as a result of the splitting of the defeated Germany in 1945 into two, but they
merged into the present air force in 1990 upon the reunification of the two
"Germanies". Only in Bosnia in 1999 has the Luftwaffe ever seen action since
the end of World War II.
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