Eagles of the Third Reich: Men of the Luftwaffe in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series) (67 page)

  
8
. Ibid.

  
9
. Ibid.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Robert M. Kennedy,
The German Campaign in Poland
(1939), United States Depart ment of the Army Pamphlet 20–255 (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1956), pp. 53–54 (hereafter cited as “Kennedy”).

12
. Speidel MS.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Brown, pp. 26–27.

16
. Speidel MS.

17
. Kennedy, p. 102.

18
. Brown, p. 32.

19
. Speidel MS.

20
. Brown, p. 32.

21
. Speidel MS.

CHAPTER 5: BLITZKRIEG

  
1
. Len Deighton,
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), pp. 187–88; Brown, pp. 52–53 (hereafter cited as “Deighton”).

  
2
. David Irving,
Hitler’s War
(New York: The Viking Press, 1977), p. 79 (hereafter cited as “Irving 1977”).

  
3
. Kammhuber Personnel Extract, Air University Archives.

  
4
. Albert Kesselring,
Kesselring: A Soldier’s Record
(Westport, Connecticut: Green-wood Press, 1970), pp. 44–47 (hereafter cited as “Kesselring”).

  
5
. Irving 1977, p. 79.

  
6
. Falkenhorst commanded the Army of Norway until it was absorbed by the 20th Mountain Army on December 18, 1944. He was living in Detmold in 1957 (Keilig, p. 85).

  
7
. Earl F. Ziemke, “The German Northern Theater of Operations, 1940–1945,”
United States Department of the Army Pamphlet 20-271
(Washington, D.C.: United States Department of the Army, 1959), p. 37 (hereafter cited as “Ziemke 1959”); Cooper, p. 109.

  
8
. Ziemke 1959, p. 36.

  
9
. Roger Edwards,
German Airborne Troops, 1936–45
(New York: Doubleday and Company, 1974), p. 71 (hereafter cited as “Edwards”).

10
. Ziemke 1959, p. 88.

11
. Plocher MS 1941; March, p. 64; Cooper, p. 110.

12
. Cooper, p. 112.

13
. Pertinax [pseudo. Andre Geraud],
The Gravediggers of France
(New York: Double-day and Company, 1944), p. 42 (hereafter cited as “Pertinax”).

14
. Ibid, p. 17.

15
. Ibid, p. 11.

16
. Jacques Benoist-Mechin,
Sixty Days That Shook the West: The Fall of France
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1963), p. 40 (hereafter cited as “Benoist-Mechin”).

17
. Heinz Guderian,
Panzer Leader
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1957; reprint ed., New York: Ballantine Books, 1967), p. 72 (hereafter cited as “Guderian”); Pertinax, pp. 25–26.

18
. A. Goutard,
The Battle of France, 1940
(New York: Ives Washburn, 1959), p. 34 (hereafter cited as “Goutard”); Irving,
Milch
,
p. 89; Cooper, p. 112.

19
. Deighton, pp. 199–200.

20
. Benoist-Mechin, p. 75.

21
. Goutard, p. 134.

22
. Ibid, p. 133.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Musciano, p. 13.

25
. Lionel E. Ellis,
The War in France and Flanders, 1939–40
(London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1953), pp. 55–56 (hereafter cited as “Ellis”).

26
. Deighton, p. 233.

27
. Ellis, p. 57.

28
. Bekker, pp. 60–64.

29
. Cooper, p. 113; Kesselring, p. 59; Benoist-Mechin, p. 67.

30
. Musciano, pp. 13, 77–78.

31
. Deighton, p. 269.

32
. Leonard Mosley and the editors of Time-Life Books,
The Battle of Britain
(Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1977), pp. 26–27 (hereafter cited as “Mosley et al”).

CHAPTER 6: THE AIR WAR AGAINST BRITAIN, 1939–42

  
1
. Coeler Personnel Extract, Air University Archives.

  
2
. Coeler was subsequently commander of the XIV Air Corps and the Air Transport Branch (from October 15, 1944). He was placed in Fuehrer Reserve on February 5, 1945 (Coeler Personnel Extract).

  
3
. Geisler Personnel Extract.

  
4
. Mosley et al, pp. 18–20.

  
5
. Irving,
Milch
,
pp. 91–92.

  
6
. Mosley et al, pp. 18–20.

  
7
. Ibid, p. 20.

  
8
. Nielsen MS.

  
9
. Mosley et al, p. 53.

10
. Cooper, p. 129.

11
. Brett-Smith, p. 139.

12
. Cooper, pp. 129–32.

13
. Musciano, p. xiv.

14
. Cooper, pp. 131–32.

15
. Irving,
Milch
,
p. 99. Cooper (p. 136) lists the British strength as 492 operational aircraft.

16
. Cooper, p. 137; Irving,
Milch
,
p. 99.

17
. Irving,
Milch
,
pp. 100–101; Mosley et al, p. 99; Cooper, pp. 143–44.

18
. Musciano, pp. 5 and 85–86.

19
. “Cooper, p. 146.

20
. Ibid, p. 147.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Mosley et al, p. 117.

23
. Telford Taylor,
The Breaking Wave
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967), p. 158 (hereafter cited as “Taylor,
Breaking Wave
”).

24
. Irving,
Milch
,
p. 101.

25
. Macksey, p. 88.

26
. Cooper, pp. 152–54; Bekker, 240–41; Irving,
Milch
,
pp. 104–5; Len Deighton,
Fighter
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977; reprinted., New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), pp. 251–52 (hereafter cited as “Deighton,
Fighter
”).

27
. Plocher MS 1941.

28
. Interrogation of Adolf Galland, 6 June 1945.

29
. Interrogation of Erhard Milch, 6 June 1945.

30
. Adolf Galland,
The First and the Last
(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1954; reprint ed., New York: Ballantine Books, 1987), p. 142 (hereafter cited as “Galland”).

31
. Schmid Personnel Extract.

32
. Plocher MS 1941.

33
. Winston S. Churchill,
Their Finest Hour
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949), p. 331.

34
. Cooper, p. 154.

35
. Taylor,
Breaking Wave
,
p. 204.

36
. Galland, pp. 46, 78.

37
. Walter Kreipe, “The Battle of Britain,” in
The Fatal Decisions
,
William Richardson and Seymour Freidin, eds. (London: Michael Joseph, 1956), p. 18.

38
. Musciano, p. 20.

39
. Cooper, pp. 173–75.

40
. Musciano, p. 42.

41
. Interrogation of Lieutenant General Veith, May, 1945.

42
. Wistrich, pp. 294–95.

43
. Deighton,
Fighter
,
p. 248; Mosley et al, p. 56.

44
. Irving,
Milch
,
p. 201.

45
. Paul Joseph Goebbels,
The Goebbels Diaries
,
Louis P. Lochner, ed. (New York: Doubleday and Company, 1948; reprinted., New York: Universal-Award House, 1971), p. 315 (hereafter cited as “Goebbels”).

46
. Williamson Murray,
Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933–1945
(Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: Air University Press, 1983), p. 197 (hereafter cited as “Murray”).

47
. Coeler Personnel Extract.

48
. March, p. 104; Cooper, pp. 125–26.

49
. Harlinghausen Personnel Extract, Air University Archives.

50
. Bekker, pp. 369–79; Cooper, pp. 126 and 178.

51
. Harlinghausen Personnel Extract; Proctor, p. 260.

52
. Kessler Personnel Extract.