Edgar Petersen Military person
Edgar Petersen (26 April 1904 – 10 June 1986) was a German Luftwaffe bomber 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. Petersen was instrumental in converting the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 into what Winston Churchill called the "Scourge of the Atlantic" during the Battle of the Atlantic. He also served in the position of Kommandeur der Erprobungstellen (commander of all Luftwaffe test stations) as an Oberst later in the war, in which capacity from September 1942 onwards when its mandate for it to perform moderate-angle dive bombing missions had been rescinded by Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, to govern and manage the task of applying the substantial number of upgrades required for the troubled Heinkel He 177A, the Luftwaffe's only operational heavy bomber to make it combat ready, mostly focusing on the fire-prone DB 606 and DB 610 powerplants used for powering the He 177A's airframe.
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| military command | I./ KG 40 KG 40 Kommandeur der Erprobungsstellen |