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An Oberstleutnant in the Luftwaffe, "Pips" Priller was a fighter pilot who flew over three hundred sorties and claimed over one hundred Allied kills, including sixty-eight Spitfires. As portrayed in "The Longest Day" [qv], on the first day of the Normandy invasion, Priller and his wingman Heinz Wodarczyk, flew over Omaha Beach and strafed the attacking force. This was the only documented action of the Luftwaffe on D-Day. After the war, Priller managed a brewery.