How many Luftwaffe crews were in Spain?

[net_sailor]

Hi Mirek!
I found some Legion Condor statistics in "Luftwaffe - działania bojowe" by Marek Murawski.

Pilots were send on 9 months combat tour (except instructors)
About 20 000 mens served on Legion (but only 6 500 simunaltaneously)
Total mortal losses: 298 airmens (173 - KIA, 97 - accidents, 28 - other causes)

A huge number of 125 officers and 250 NCO's passed throught J/88 figter squadron (39 of them recievied a Knight Cross).

Missions of leading aces:
Olt Harder - 297 combat sorties
Lt Galland - 280
Lt Pingel - 150
Lt Oesau - 130

bregs,

Marcin

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

Thanks for this inforamtion, I do not have this book.
BTW there was almost 300 Soviet fighter pilots, who fought between 1936-1938 against "Franco" aviation.

So the difference between amount of fighting fighter pilots (German v. Russian) was not so big. Almost very similar (?).

Of course Soviet advisors (about 3.000 were there) did not fought as a common "infranty". There were in command post (advisors) or were higher commanders like "Walter - gen. K. Świerczewski", :-). He was a commander of republican brigade during Civil War.

I do not include soldiers of international brigades, where many communist from the world, and not only (like G. Orwell), did serve in 1936-1938.

Thanks for the info, :-)
MirekW

[RT]

There is at least a major difference betw. german nd soviet involvment, is that german are just fighting, soviets are fighting nd also nd above all hv "political" action, I let you thing what is "political" action in the mind of the leftists

rt