Education of the Mind: TIL that in the closing days of WWII, Germany formed a squadron of suicide pilots called "Leonidas Squadron". Several pilots from the squadron did fly their planes into bridges over the Oder river in April 1945 to slow the Soviet advance and disrupt their beachhead.

Sunday, July 16, 2017

TIL that in the closing days of WWII, Germany formed a squadron of suicide pilots called "Leonidas Squadron". Several pilots from the squadron did fly their planes into bridges over the Oder river in April 1945 to slow the Soviet advance and disrupt their beachhead.

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