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May 03, 1920 Died on 31 Aug 1982 (aged 62)
German general
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About Horst Rudat
- 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./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.
- HMS Nith, a British River-class frigate, was damaged killing nine of her crew.
