This month's Fredericksburg Ex-Military Flyers program will feature Gretel Wohlbier-Neff, who will share the story of her father, Leutnant Hans Wohlbier, and his service in the German Luftwaffe during World War II. Wohlbier served primarily on the Eastern Front and left behind a valuable firsthand account of the air war against the Soviet Union.

He grew up in Germany and volunteered for the Luftwaffe in October 1940.

He received flight training at the Breslau Luftkriegsschule from 1941 to 1942 and later completed advanced dive-bomber training in southern France.