Air Battle of Berlin. The Last Battle of the Luftwaffe. 1945
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Air Battle of Berlin. The Last Battle of the Luftwaffe. 1945
9.99 €
“April 16, 1945. We are distributing by radio which aircraft to escort. I approach my “protégé” and take up a position a few meters from its right wing. I see that he is a young lieutenant in a casual uniform. Instead of a flight helmet, he is wearing an officer’s cap. Since he has no radio, we can only communicate with gestures. His face does not express fanaticism, excitement, or even sadness. Bright flashes indicate the proximity of the Oder front. He dives steeply in a spiral and disappears. I stare in that direction. A bright blood-red flash lights up the sky. I am convinced that he has reached his target” - this is how the German pilot Ewald Kraas described a typical sortie of Hitler’s “kamikaze” - suicide pilots who sacrificed themselves for the dying Third Reich. This book is a logical continuation of the authors' story about the Luftwaffe operations in the last months of the war, which was started in the book "The Luftwaffe's Wonder Weapon. Battle from the Future". It tells about the last battles of the Luftwaffe: the battles for Breslau, on the Oder and in the Berlin sky, the supply operations for the "fortresses" in France, the evacuation of troops from Courland, the final battles of jet aircraft, the actions of night anti-tank squadrons, etc. The authors answer the questions: why did German pilots, realizing that the war was lost, continue to go into battle, often to certain death? How did the Luftwaffe, despite the shortage of fuel and equipment, the loss of airfields, manage to maintain combat effectiveness until May 9?
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series On the Front Line. Air Battles. Military Aviation of the 20th Century