Eagles of the Third Reich: Men of the Luftwaffe in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series) (66 page)

  
4
. Macksey, pp. 23–28; Richard Brett-Smith,
Hitler’s Generals
(Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1977), p. 236.

  
5
. Gen. Off.s, GAF; Macksey, pp. 34–39.

  
6
. Macksey, pp. 37–45; Gen. Off.s, GAF.

  
7
. Albert Kesselring,
Kesselring: A Soldier’s Record
(Westport, Connecticut: Green-wood Press, 1970), p. 14.

  
8
. Gen. Off.s, GAF.

  
9
. Telford Taylor,
Sword and Swastika: Generals and Nazis in the Third Reich
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952; reprinted., Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969), p. 248 (hereafter cited as “Taylor,
Sword and Swastika
”).

10
. Cooper, p. 68.

11
. Richard Suchenwirth, “Historical Turning Points in the German Air Force War Effort,”
United States Air Force Historical Studies Number 189
.
United States Air Force Historical Division, Aerospace Studies Institute (Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: Air University, 1969) (hereafter cited as “Suchenwirth MS ‘Turning Points’”).

12
. Cajus Bekker,
The Luftwaffe War Diaries
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), p. 328 (hereafter cited as “Bekker”).

13
. Suchenwirth MS “Turning Points.”

14
. Suchenwirth MS “Development of the GAF.”

15
. Mosley, p. 176.

16
. Ibid, pp. 261–63.

17
. Irving,
Milch
,
pp. 50–54; Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

18
. Cooper, pp. 16–17.

19
. Ibid, p. 19.

20
. Ibid.

21
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

22
. Ibid.

23
. Irving,
Milch
,
pp. 47 and 53.

24
. Udet Dienftlaubahn, Air University Archives:
Ernst Udet, Ace of the Iron Cross
,
Stanley M. Ulanoff, ed. (New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1981), p. 2 (hereafter cited as “Udet”).

25
. Udet, pp. 3–18; Udet Dienftlaubahn.

26
. Colonel Ulanoff’s translation (op cit, Footnote 24) is very good, except that he states in his introduction that Goering forced Udet to commit suicide. As we shall see, this is not correct.

27
. Ibid, pp. xv–xvi and 143; Udet Dienftlaubahn. Udet’s Pour le Merite was awarded on April 9, 1918.

28
. Udet, pp. 91–94.

29
. Udet Dienftlaubahn.

30
. Irving,
Milch
,
pp. 120–21, 143–44, and 243.

31
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

32
. Felmy Personnel Extract, Air University Archives.

33
. Mason, p. 249.

34
. Suchenwirth MS “Command”; Irving,
Milch
,
pp. 67–68; Cooper, pp. 78–79; Mason, p. 251.

35
. Kammhuber Personnel Extract.

36
. Suchenwirth MS “Command”; Irving,
Milch
,
pp. 67–68; Cooper, pp. 78–79; Mason, p. 251.

CHAPTER 3: SPAIN: THE FIRST BATTLE

  
1
. Raymond L. Proctor,
Hitler’s Luftwaffe in the Spanish Civil War
(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983), pp. 12-–4 and 32–33 (hereafter cited as “Proctor”).

  
2
. Bruce R. Pirnie, “First Test for the War Machine,”
World War II
,
Volume 1, Number 5 (January, 1987), pp. 44–45 (hereafter cited as “Pirnie”).

  
3
. Karl Drum, “The German Air Force in the Spanish Civil War,”
United States Air Force Historical Studies Number 150
,
United States Air Force Historical Division, Aerospace Studies Institute (Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: Air University, 1965) (hereafter cited as “Drum MS”).

  
4
. Proctor, pp. 60–61.

  
5
. Gen. Off.s, GAF; Wistrich, p. 294.

  
6
. Cooper, p. 4.

  
7
. Gen. Off.s, GAF.

  
8
. Drum MS.

  
9
. Gen. Off.s, GAF.

10
. Drum MS.

11
. Ibid. Henke was killed shortly thereafter.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Proctor, p. 65.

14
. Drum MS.

15
. Proctor, p. 84.

16
. Ibid, p. 66.

17
. Ibid, pp. 94–95.

18
. Harry R. Fletcher, “Legion Condor: Hitler’s Military Aid to Franco, 1936–1939,” Unpublished M.A. Thesis (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1961), pp. 121–22 and 137 (hereafter cited as “Fletcher”).

19
. Hermann Plocher, “The German Air Force Versus Russia, 1941,”
United States Air Force Historical Studies Number 153
,
United States Air Force Historical Division, Aerospace Studies Institute (Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: Air University, 1965) (hereafter cited as “Plocher MS 1941”).

20
. Lt. Lothar von Richthofen, younger brother of the Red Baron, was shot down and seriously wounded on March 13, 1918. He spent most of the rest of the war in hospitals or on convalescent leave. He married Countess Doris von Keyserling, the daughter of one of the Kaiser’s advisors, in 1919. They had a daughter, but were separated soon after. Lothar was killed in an air accident on July 4, 1922 (Gibbons, pp. 176–77).

21
. Gen. Off.s, GAF; Plocher MS 1941.

22
. Gen. Off.s, GAF.

23
. Wistrich, p. 248; Snyder, p. 296. Also see Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.,
Triumphant Fox: Erwin Rommel and the Rise of the Afrika Korps
(Briarcliff Manor, New York: Stein and Day, 1984), p. 67 (hereafter cited as “Mitcham 1984”).

24
. Gen. Off.s, GAF.

25
. Drum MS.

26
. Ibid.

27
. Cooper, p. 49.

28
. Fletcher, pp. 196–97.

29
. Fletcher, pp. 109 and 197–98; Drum MS.

30
. Drum MS; Fletcher, p. 198.

31
. Proctor, pp. 117–18.

32
. Pirnie, p. 48.

33
. Fletcher, pp. 147–48.

34
. Drum MS.

35
. Proctor, pp. 76–77, 124, and 158.

36
. Gen. Off.s, GAF.

37
. Ibid.

38
. Proctor, p. 216.

39
. Fletcher, pp. 185–95.

40
. Proctor, pp. 187–206, 210.

41
. Keilig, p. 357; Taylor,
Sword and Swastika
,
pp. 138 and 389.

42
. Drum MS.

43
. Fletcher, pp. 109 and 197-98; Drum MS. These figures exclude about eighteen reconnaissance aircraft.

44
. Dale M. Brown and the editors of Time-Life Books,
The Luftwaffe
(Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1982), p. 19 (hereafter cited as “Brown”).

45
. Fletcher, pp. 203–4.

46
. Fletcher, pp. 206–8; Drum MS.

47
. Roger J. Bender,
The Luftwaffe
(Mountain View, California: R. James Bender Publishing Company, 1972), p. 130.

48
. Proctor, p. 253.

49
. Drum MS.

50
. Bekker, p. 562; Proctor, pp. 260–63.

51
. Proctor, p. 259. Proctor, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, is a professor of history at the University of Idaho. In this author’s opinion, his Hitler’s Luftwaffe in the Spanish Civil War is the definitive work produced thus far on the Condor Legion.

52
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

CHAPTER 4: THE BUILDUP AND THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR

  
1
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

  
2
. Mason, pp. 260–61.

  
3
. The Luftwaffe divisional commanders in 1939 were Ulrich Grauert (1st), Loerzer (2d), Putzier (3d), Keller (4th), Greim (5th), Dessloch (6th), and Student (7th) (Walter A. Musciano, Messerschmitt Aces [New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1982), p. 5 [hereafter cited as “Musciano”]). Lt. Gen. Helmut Foerster commanded the Lehrdivision (training division).

  
4
. Suchenwirth MS “Development of the GAF.”

  
5
. Tony Wood and Bill Gunston,
Hitler’s Luftwaffe
(Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, 1984), pp. 182-84 (hereafter cited as “Wood and Gunston”); Suchenwirth MS “Development of the GAF.”

  
6
. Suchenwirth MS “Development of the GAF.”

  
7
. Wilhelm Speidel, “The Luftwaffe in the Polish Campaign,”
United States Air Force Historical Studies Number 151
,
United States Air Force Historical Division, Aerospace Studies Institute (Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: Air University: 1956) (hereafter cited as “Speidel MS”).