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Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik

German General and Knight's Cross recipients

Died when: 94 years 284 days (1137 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik

Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik (10 December 1891 – 17 June 1985) was a general in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II.He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Morzik was a winner in the first International Tourist Plane Contest Challenge and the second Challenge in 1930.In 1935 he started service in the Air Force (Luftwaffe), as a commandant of pilots' school.

In World War II he became a head of Luftwaffe Transport Command, in a rank of Generalmajor.After the war he wrote a detailed story of German transport aviation during the war: Die deutschen Transportflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Frankfurt am Main, 1966) and German Air Force Airlift Operations (New York: Arno Press, 1968).


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