Stukaleitoffizier

[sidney]

According to E.R. Hooton's The Luftwaffe; A Study in Air Power 1933-1945, page 70, these Luftwaffe liaison officers were first deployed as early as of the Battle of France in May 1940. "... This time there was no problem with air support, for Richthofen (VIII. Fliegerkorps) had supplied radio-equipped forward liaison officers in their own armoured command vehicles; they could bring in the Stukas to disrupt any strongpoints withing 45 to 75 minutes, and in the case of of the Hs 123A within 10 minutes...."