On 6th June 1944, Oberstleutnant Josef ‘Pips’ Priller and his wingman Unteroffizier Hienz Wodarcyck of JG 26 flew the most famous Luftwaffe sortie on ‘D-Day’. As some of the only available fighters in Normandy on this day, the pair took off from Lille-Nord at 0800 and headed for the invasion beaches. They soon reached Sword and Juno beaches where they both made a single staffing run under intense Allied fire. Miraculously making it through the flak unscathed, Priller and Wodarcyck returned to base. This event was popularised by the book and film ‘The Longest Day’.

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