Horst Rudat
German general
Died when: 62 years 120 days (747 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Horst Rudat (3 May 1920 - 31 August 1982) was a general in the German Air Force.During World War II, he served in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany as a bomber pilot.
In the weeks following Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France, Rudat was tasked with the leadership of a task force in 2./.
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.HMS Nith, a British River-class frigate, was damaged killing nine of her crew.
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