Horses and Oxen on the Luftwaffe Flightline

[Mikael Olrog]

The title of this thread sounds like a booktitle!

So Rich, when will you publish a book about the cows, horses and donkeys in Luftwaffe service!? :-)

[James A Pratt III]

The Luftwaffe had to worry about fuel from the start of the war. They just never had enough and things got worse the longer the war went on. Also in the USSR the Germans made wide use of Russian Panje horses.

[HGabor]

Hi all, this is Daniel using my father's account (as I do not have one).
I have an ULTRA message for 30th October, 1944, stating that Luftflotte Reich was to obtain 300 new draft oxen to help taxi aircraft around on airfields.


All the best,
Daniel (using my father's account).

[VtwinVince]

My uncle's name was Ochs, which translates directly as Ox, and he spent a lot of time on the Luftwaffe flight lines LOL.

[Broncazonk]

Originally Posted by HGabor

Hi all, this is Daniel using my father's account (as I do not have one).
I have an ULTRA message for 30th October, 1944, stating that Luftflotte Reich was to obtain 300 new draft oxen to help taxi aircraft around on airfields.


All the best,
Daniel (using my father's account).

What an awesome scrap of valuable information!

Bronc

[James A Pratt III]

The book "Stopped at Stalingrad' by Joel Hayward discusses the Luftwaffe's fuel problems.

One must point out that in the economic parts of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact the Germans recieved from the USSR large amounts of fuel ect which help enabled the Germans to win their early war victories.