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During the period July 1944 – February 1945, the group engaged chiefly in escorting bombers to oil refineries, marshalling yards, and other targets in such cities as Ludwigshafen, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Berlin, Merseburg, and Brux.
Converted from P-38's to P-51 Mustang's in the summer of 1944 and from then until the end of the war flew many long-range escort missions heavy bombers that attacked oil refineries, industries, and other strategic objectives at Berlin, Regensburg, Merseburg, Stuttgart, Brussels, and elsewhere.
After D-Day, engaged chiefly in escorting bombers to oil refineries, marshalling yards, and other targets in such cities as Ludwigshafen, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Berlin, Merseburg, and Brux.
Specific targets included a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, an aircraft assembly plant in Brunswick, ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt and Leipzig, synthetic oil refineries at Merseburg and Gelsenkirchen, marshalling yards at Hamm and Reims and airfields in Mesnil au Val and Berlin.
The squadron operated chiefly against industrial and military installations in Germany, attacking an ordnance depot at Magdeburg, marshalling yards at Cologne, synthetic oil plants at Merseburg, a railroad tunnel at Ahrweiler, bridges at Irlich, factories at Frankfurt, and other strategic objectives.
After that, the group attacked such strategic objectives as the port of St Nazaire, shipyards at Kiel, an aircraft component parts factory at Kassel, a synthetic rubber plant at Hanover, a chemical factory at Ludwigshafen, marshalling yards at Frankfurt, oil facilities at Merseburg, and ball-bearing works at Eberhausen.
August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig (Merseburg, 15 February 1655 – Zörbig, 27 March 1715), was a German prince and member of the House of Wettin.
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He was the third but second surviving son of Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg and Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
An important line of burgwards lay along the Unstrut west of Merseburg, but it declined in importance in the early ninth century after the integration of the Saxons into the Frankish state.
Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
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Christian was born in Birkenfeld in 1598 as the youngest son of Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld.
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His father's lands were partitioned after his death and Christian received the territory around Bischwiller (German: Bischweiler) in Alsace.
#Philipp (b. Merseburg, 26 October 1657 - killed in action at Fleurus, 1 July 1690), inherited Lauchstädt.
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When the House of Biberstein became extinct on 9 January 1668, Christian became ruler of Forst, with all its castles and vassal villages, including Döbern in the Electorate of Saxony, which created new disputes with his brother, John George II, its ruler.
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According to the will of John George I, Christian received Merseburg and the cities of Bad Lauchstädt, Schkeuditz, Lützen, and Zwenkauand with their castles, half of the towns of Brehna, Zörbig, and Finsterwalde, and the Margraviate of Lower Lusatia, including the towns and castles of Lübben, Dobrilugk, Finsterwalde, Guben, Luckau, Calau, and Spremberg; this settlement created the Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg with Christian as its ruler.
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#Sibylle Maria (b. Merseburg, 28 October 1667 - d. Bernstadt, 9 October 1693), married on 27 October 1683 to Duke Christian Ulrich of Württemberg-Bernstadt.
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#Sophie Hedwig (b. Merseburg, 4 August 1660 - d. Saalfeld, 2 August 1686), married on 18 February 1680 to Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Saalfeld.
#Frederick, Prince of Anhalt(-Bernburg)-Harzgerode (b. Ensdorf, 16 November 1613 - d. Plötzkau, 30 June 1670).
#Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b. Merseburg, 5 February 1688 - d. Merseburg, 21 April 1731).
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Christian II of Saxe-Merseburg (Merseburg, 19 November 1653 – Merseburg, 20 October 1694), was a duke of Saxe-Merseburg and member of the House of Wettin.
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after=Christian III
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In fact, he is only remembered today for one of the obelisks in the gardens of Schloss Merseburg, where he appears together with his wife.
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He was the second (but eldest surviving) son of Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, and Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
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#Christian III Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b. Merseburg, 7 November 1680 - d. Merseburg, 14 November 1694).
Christian III Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (Merseburg, 7 November 1680 – Merseburg, 14 November 1694), was a duke of Saxe-Merseburg and member of the House of Wettin.
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after=Maurice Wilhelm
# Sophie Hedwig (4 August 1660 in Merseburg – 2 August 1686 in Saalfeld), married on 18 February 1680 to Duke John Ernest of Saxe-Saalfeld
Air Chief Marshal Portal demanded that the British share the losses the 8AF had been taking by assuming responsibility for two of the largest and most distant targets, Pölitz and Merseburg-Leuna.
Well-known students of Asinger are in example Heribert Offermanns, a longtime board member of the Degussa AG, Egon Fanghänel, professor of organic chemistry at the Technical University Merseburg and then at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, and Karl Gewald, who is best known for the development of the Gewald reaction and his work in the field of thiophenes and heterocycles.
Amongst her children was Charles Edward, last reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
During the Second World War Van Poelje was interned by the German occupying forces on September 2, 1940, first in the Scheveningen prison, later on in Büchenwald, Merseburg and Halle.
By the outbreak of WWII, Rittergutsbrauerei Döllnitz, between Merseburg and Halle, was the last brewery producing Gose.
In 1867 he was sent to Merseburg against his will, and was pensioned off at his own request in 1872.
Later, he was one of main forces behind the reactivation of the Norwegian Riksråd at the end of the reign of King Christian I.
Afterwards, she had trouble journeying back to Merseburg and thence to Lauchstädt.
Maurice Wilhelm succeeded his older brother Christian III Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, when he died on 14 November 1694 after only twenty-five days of rule.
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Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (Merseburg, 5 February 1688 – Merseburg, 21 April 1731), was a duke of Saxe-Merseburg and member of the House of Wettin.
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After his death without male issue, was succeeded by his uncle Heinrich.
Bishop Anton Christian Bang compiled a volume culled from Norwegian black books of charms and other sources, and classified the horse-mending spells under the opening chapter "Odin og Folebenet", strongly suggesting a relationship with the second Merseburg incantation.
Historians note their use by soldiers of Christian I in 1586, while the Dresden museum has evidence dating their use to 1591, and Capo Bianco writes in 1597 that paper cartridges had long been in use by Neapolitan soldiers.
Philipp received in 1684 the town of Lauchstädt and founded the line of Saxe-Merseburg-Lauchstädt.
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In Bernstadt on 17 August 1688 and eighteen months after the death of his first wife, Philipp married secondly with Louise Elisabeth of Württemberg-Oels.
territory gained from the Kingdom of Saxony after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813: the towns and surrounding territories of Wittenberg, Merseburg, Naumburg, Mansfeld, Querfurt, and Henneberg;
After the war, holdings that wound up in the Soviet occupation zone were moved relatively unscathed to a newly created German Central Archive housed in Merseburg, East Germany.
The Ulmus pumila cultivar 'Aurescens' originated in the National Arboretum, Zöschen, near Merseburg, Germany.
He had been consecrated by 21 July 1462, when he rendered an oath of fealty at Copenhagen to Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.