Paul Deichmann

Paul Deichmann was a German World War II Luftwaffe general and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

General der Flieger Paul Deichmann was born in Fulda onAugust 1898. He entered the German Imperial Army as a Fhnrich in the 86th Regiment of Fusiliers onMarch 1916, and was commissioned a Leutnant a week prior to his eighteenth birthday. In the following August he began service with flying units as an observer, and continued this duty to the end of World War I.

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