[WarInEur] Pro German Bias

[Buckley, John D.]

My point is that if you look at Luftwaffe structure only a very small part of it (less than 10%) was given over to battlefield air support and the only dedicated CAS aircraft type was a biplane. It's not that they weren't better than the others -they were - but there was no grand concept of blitzkrieg. Nowhere did the Luftwaffe or Wehrmacht have any new 'model' or 'concept' for doing things. BAS developed slowly in the Luftwaffe and they really didn't want it to, but circumstances dictated that it did. 

Professor John Buckley 
History and War Studies 
HLSS - University of Wolverhampton 
Wulfruna Street 
Wolverhampton 
West Midlands 
UK 
WV1 1SB 
Tel: 0044 (0)1902 323388 

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Sent: 05 February 2008 18:45
To: Buckley, John D.; Chuck Sutherland; warineur at mailman.halisp.net
Subject: RE: [WarInEur] Pro German Bias


The luftwaffe had liasons with front line units to help direct CAS.  Did the allies have anything like it early in the war? 
 
As far as increasing russian stacking later in the war - very good idea, however 6 units may be too much.  The massive casualties they suffered while pushing the germans back would disappear if they were allowed stack 6 units per hex.

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