Julius Meimberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German flying ace
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Place of Birth: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Julius Meimberg
- Julius Meimberg (11 January 1917 – 17 January 2012) was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.
- The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.
- In the 1960s he invented an open end spinning device and received patents in the US and Germany for it.
- In 2001 he received the Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille
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