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Old 23rd November 2008, 13:33
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Re: Luftwaffe Myths

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Originally Posted by VtwinVince View Post
This is a joke, right? I haven't seen such a ludicrous first posting for awhile now. You might want to do some rudimentary research before belittling the Luftwaffe on a Luftwaffe forum.
..the guy's post struck a chord with me...personally I'm a little tired of the focus on Luftwaffe aces and their 200+ scores, smart uniforms and exotic a/c types. Small technological advantage squandered. Me 262s deployed piecemeal. Same debate Tigers vs. Shermans. The Germans failed to make the right production choices. Lets not forget who won. Belittling the Luftwaffe ? - even Hitler himself was doing that long before the end. No, much more interesting are the experiences of the average Luftwaffe airman, the Seegers & Meimbergs or the RLV guys who braved impossible odds and died horrible deaths. I can relate to the 'mediocre' in the original post too...German bomber arm, industrial production (despite being masters of Europe), naval air power etc etc..you have a small country like the UK producing literally thousands of four-engine bombers and dispatching them on huge raids, necessitating a German civil defence organisation of millions, whereas by late 1943 the Luftwaffe can barely scrape together two hundred medium twins to raid small provincial towns in England ...

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