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Horst Rudat (born 3 May 1920 in Wirtkallen, district Insterburg, East Prussia; died 31 August 1982 in Laaber/Waldelzerberg) was a German World War II ''Luftwaffe'' bomber pilot. After the war he joined the Bundeswehr and attained the rank of Generalmajor. In the weeks following Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France, ''Hauptmann'' Rudat was tasked with the leadership of a task force in 2./Kampfgeschwader 101. 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. The HMS ''Nith'', a British "River Class" frigate, was damaged killing nine of her crew.〔Ford 2000, pp. 50–51.〕 ==Awards== *Iron Cross (1939) * * 2nd Class (9 August 1941)〔Kaiser 2011, p. 90.〕 * * 1st Class (7 September 1941)〔 *Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe (27 May 1942)〔 *German Cross in Gold on 27 July 1942 as ''Oberleutnant'' in the 3./KG 55〔Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 389.〕 *Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 24 March 1943 as ''Oberleutnant'' and ''Staffelkapitän'' of the 2./KG 55〔Fellgiebel 2000, p. 366.〕〔Scherzer 2007, p. 643.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Horst Rudat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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