Julius Meimberg, German soldier and pilot (born 1917)

Julius Meimberg

Fighter pilot and inventor (1917–2012)

Julius Meimberg was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 53 aerial victories—that is, 53 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft—claimed in over 250 combat missions. In the 1960s, he invented an…