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Re: Luftwaffe Myths
Hello Nick:
Building further on the Flak aspect you mentioned, I recently had occassion to speak with a fellow at our local airport who, as a youngster (15 yrs, I think), was part of a Luftwaffe Flak crew towards the very end of the war. Beyond some purely fascinating stories, he also mentioned to me that he had been told at the time that approximately 12,000 shells were expended for every bomber brought down. He said he did not know for sure if that number was right or not, but a lot of the Flak bursts exploded harmlessly. Pretty interesting. Thats a lot of metal going up. Sometimes I wonder where it all came down?
His tale of being captured by the Russians was harrowing, but in some ways quite funny too. He was released after two years...thin as a rail, I might add.
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