Dietrich Peltz


Dietrich Peltz was a German World War II Luftwaffe bomber pilot and youngest general of the Wehrmacht. As a pilot he flew approximately 320 combat missions, including roughly 130 as a bomber pilot on the Eastern Front, 90 as a bomber pilot on the Western Front, and 102 as a dive bomber pilot during the Invasion of Poland and Battle of France.

Peltz was born onJune 1914 in GeraReu, in Thuringia, at the time a Principality of ReussGera. He was the son of a factory director. Agedhe had received a pilot license and graduated in 1933 with his Abitur from the Hermann Lietz country boarding school in Spiekeroog.

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