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Thijs Lepstra 15th May 2009 23:13

Walter Oesau speech
 
It might have been posted here before but I think it is well worth watching:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plZr-nQTDLE

From 5:35 there is about a minute long speech by Walter Oesau.

kennethklee 16th May 2009 03:34

Re: Walter Oesau speech
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Thijs Lepstra (Post 86047)
It might have been posted here before but I think it is well worth watching:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plZr-nQTDLE

From 5:35 there is about a minute long speech by Walter Oesau.


Thanks for posting. A good part of the footage, including Oesau's speech, has surprisingly good visual fidelity. I especially liked the gun camera films of German fighter attacks on the B-17's and B-24's. I found interesting that many of the attacks depicted were from the rear rather than the head-on attacks discussed often in WWII aerial combat references. I presume that head-on attacks on the heavy bomber formations, while subjecting the attacking fighters to considerably less concentrated return fire, required a high level of marksmanship and steady nerves and therefore were not implemented as often by the less experienced pilots compared to the "old hares".

Kenneth

Red Baroness 19th May 2009 18:35

Re: Walter Oesau speech
 
Yep, this is the April 26, 1944 speech - a little over a fortnight later, Oesau would be dead. He always looks so tired during late 1943-44 - you can really tell how much the constant war ages someone by looking at his photographs from the early years to 1944. Gotta love that Nordlich accent, heh heh.


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