Eagles of the Third Reich: Men of the Luftwaffe in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series) (69 page)

54
. Ibid.

55
. Ibid.

56
. Plocher MS 1941; also see Bekker, pp. 319–25.

57
. Musciano, pp. 88-89; Galland, pp. 78–80; Moelders Personnel Extract.

58
. Galland, p. 78.

59
. Musciano, p. 89.

60
. Paul Carell,
Hitler Moves East, 1941–43
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964; reprint ed., New York: Bantam Books, 1966), p. 266 (hereafter cited as “Carell 1966”).

61
. Bekker, p. 322.

62
. Hans Ulrich Rudel,
Stuka Pilot
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1958; reprint ed., New York: Bantam Books, 1979), pp. 31–43 (hereafter cited as “Rudel”).

63
. Bekker, pp. 322–23.

64
. Rudel, pp. 31–43 and 53.

65
. Ibid.

66
. Bekker, p. 324.

67
. Plocher MS 1941.

68
. Carell 1966, pp. 269–70.

69
. Plocher MS 1942.

70
. Plocher MS 1941.

71
. Ibid.

72
. Overy, p. 62.

CHAPTER 9: THE FALL OF ERNST UDET

  
1
. Cooper, p. 29.

  
2
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

  
3
. Baumbach, pp. 14–17.

  
4
. Cooper, p. 271.

  
5
. Wood and Gunston, p. 210.

  
6
. General a.D. Marquardt, “Die Stuka-Idee hat der deutsche Luftwaffe den Unter-gang gebracht” (“The Dive-Bomber Concept as the Ruin of the German Air Force”), Karlsruhe Document Collection.

  
7
. Mason, p. 255.

  
8
. Cooper, p. 71.

  
9
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

10
. Suchenwirth MS “Turning Points.”

11
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

12
. Mason, p. 258.

13
. Wood and Gunston, p. 188.

14
. Bekker, p. 555.

15
. Cooper, p. 71.

16
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

17
. Mason, p. 256.

18
. Cooper, p. 54.

19
. Mason, p. 256.

20
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

21
. Ibid.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Ibid.

25
. Brett-Smith, p. 132.

26
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

27
. Ibid.

28
. Brett-Smith, p. 131.

29
. Suchenwirth MS “Command.”

30
. Cooper, p. 278.

31
. Suchenwirth MS “Command”; Baumbach, p. 17.

32
. Ibid. Lucht was retired with a pension on January 1, 1943, and went to work as the manager of the Messerschmitt Works at Regensburg. He was killed—apparently during an Allied bombing raid—in the last weeks of the war. Ploch, an aerial observer in World War I, had served in the secret air force based at Lipetsk, Russia, in the 1920s and was fluent in Russian. He had further trouble with Milch, however, and was permanently retired on November 30, 1942.

33
. See Irving,
Milch
,
for an excellent and more detailed description of Milch’s accomplishments in the air armaments field.

34
. Gen. Karl Koller, quoted in A.D.I.K. Report Number 348/1945, British Air Ministry (on file at the Air University Archives, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgom -ery, Alabama).

35
. Brett-Smith, p. 109.

CHAPTER 10: THE RUSSIAN FRONT, 1942–43

  
1
. Plocher MS 1941.

  
2
. Ibid.

  
3
. Plocher MS 1942.

  
4
. Plocher MS 1941.

  
5
. Ibid.

  
6
. Cooper, p. 240.

  
7
. Plocher MS 1941 and 1942.

  
8
. Fritz Morzik, “German Air Force Airlift Operations,”
United States Air Force Historical Studies Number 167
,
United States Air Force Historical Division, Aerospace Studies Institute (Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: Air University, 1961) (hereafter cited as “Morzik MS”); Plocher MS 1942.

  
9
. Carell 1966, p. 438.

10
. Morzik MS; Plocher MS 1942.

11
. Morzik Personnel Extract.

12
. Morzik MS.

13
. Plocher MS 1942.

14
. Ibid; Morzik MS.

15
. Overy, p. 65; Plocher MS 1942.

16
. Gen. Off.s, GAF.

17
. Erich von Manstein,
Lost Victories
(Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1982), p. 235 (hereafter cited as “Manstein”).

18
. Seaton, Moscow, p. 259.

19
. Plocher MS 1942.

20
. Ibid.

21
. Manstein, pp. 236-38; Seaton, Moscow, p. 259.

22
. Plocher MS 1942.

23
. Carell 1966, pp. 501–4; Seaton, Moscow, p. 263. Both Carell and Seaton cite Soviet sources, which are probably conservative.

24
. Plocher MS 1942.

25
. Carell 1966, pp. 501–4; Plocher MS 1942; Seaton, Moscow, p. 263.

26
. Plocher MS 1942.

27
. Ibid.

28
. Seaton, p. 264; also see Carell 1966, pp. 504–11.

29
. Carell 1966, p. 511.

30
. Plocher MS 1942.

31
. March, p. 113.

32
. Bekker, p. 390.

33
. Ibid, pp. 391–93; March, p. 113.

34
. March, p. 114.

35
. Bekker, p. 398; Carell 1966, pp. 466–67.

36
. Bekker, p. 398.

37
. Ibid; March, p. 115; Carell 1966, p. 467.

38
. Cooper, p. 245.

39
. Galland, pp. 87–88.

40
. Plocher MS 1942.

41
. Ibid.

42
. Gen. Off.s, GAF.

43
. Cooper, pp. 245–46; Plocher MS 1942.

44
. Plocher MS 1942.

45
. Ibid.

46
. Cooper, p. 247.

47
. Plocher MS 1942.

48
. Cooper, pp. 245–46.

49
. Plocher MS 1942.

50
. Seaton, Moscow, p. 291.

51
. Plocher MS 1941.

52
. John Shaw and the editors of Time-Life Books,
Red Army Resurgent
,
World War II series, Volume 20 (Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1979), p. 137 (hereafter cited as “Shaw et al”).

53
. Plocher MS 1942.

54
. Ibid, citing Richthofen Diary, entry of November 1–2, 1942.

55
. Irving,
Hitler’s War
,
p. 285.

56
. Plocher MS 1942.

57
. Ibid.

58
. Seaton,
Moscow
,
pp. 306–7.

59
. Rudel, p. 73.

60
. Plocher MS 1942.

61
. Mosley, p. 334.

62
. Plocher MS 1942.

63
. Kurt Zeitzler, “Stalingrad,” in
The Fatal Decisions
,
William Richardson and Seymour Freidon, eds. (London: Michael Joseph, 1956), pp. 144–45.

64
. Plocher MS 1942.

65
. James D. Carnes, “A Study in Courage: General Walther von Seydlitz’ Opposition to Hitler,” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation (Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 1976), p. 147.

66
. Plocher MS 1942.

67
. Irving 1977, p. 457.