INDEX
A-4. See V2.
air doctrineinterwar development summarized: xxiii-xxv
airpower
need for wartime flexibility: 336. See also Army Air Corps Tactical School, Luftwaffe, RAF, "strategic" bombing.nature of in WWII: xxiv
Allies
role in German defeat: 301aircraft production: 103, 139
Army Air Service. See USAAF.
Dieppe raid: 135
North Africa antishipping campaign: 162. See also RAF, USAAF.
Army Air Corps Tactical School: 247and air doctrine: 333
von Arnim, Generaloberst Jürgen: 159
emphasizes pursuit aviation: 332
shift to bombardment emphasis: 332-33
and precision bombing: 333-37
Arnold, Henry "Hap"sets air goals: 236
and Schweinfurt: 223
B-17 bomber: 181, 335
B-24 bomber: 181
"Baby Blitz": 250-51
Baldwin, Stanley, says bomber "would always get through": 14
"Operation Barbarossa": 74August pause: 83
Battle of Britain: 39-56
and bad weather: 86-88
and civilian population: 79
Directive No. 21: 71
German logistical difficulties: 79, 82-83
German losses: 120
Germans underestimate Russian strength: 83
operations: 81-88
planning: 77-80
and Russian distances: 83
Soviet tactical surprise: 81bombing of London: 20
Behncke, Rear Admiral Paul, on Zeppelin attacks: 3-4
Belgium: 36-38
Bennet, Air Vice Marshal D. C .T.on crew morale: 221
Battle of Berlin: 213-22
on need for senior commanders to fly missions: 257
Bf 109 fighter: 38, 104in Battle of Britain: 46, 48, 56
Bf 110 fighter: 179, 337 n30
and drop tanks: 48
in Spain: 15in Battle of Britain: 48
"Big Week": 237-45
as night fighter: 214
"Blitzkrieg" strategy: 30, 96
von Blomberg, Werner: 5
Blumentritt, Günther, opinion of Russian soldier: 79
1st Bombardment Division: 222
100th Bombardment Group: 222
Bomber Commandaircraft losses: 166-69, 212, 215-20, 343
Bonnet, Georges: 18
aircrew survival prospects: 303
and "area" bombing: 128-29, 190
attrition: 129, 131, 220
Battle of Berlin: 213-22
bombing accuracy: 56, 128, 217, 256 n37, 264-65, 293 n3, 327
bombs Ruhr: 166-67
bombs Prague: 166
bombs French railways: 267, 271-72
Cologne raid: 130
crew losses and morale: 220-21
and daylight bombing: 127-28, 130-31
effect on German morale: 299-300
and Eighth Air Force: 173
and Essen: 217
fall 1943 campaign: 210
and Hamburg: 167-69
and Kammhuber line: 177
loses initiative over Germany: 264
and night fighter forces: 215
Nuremberg Raid: 218
operates under restrictions: 127
and "Overlord": 272
pathfinder force: 130
Peenemünde raid: 169
performance in 1942: 166
and Schweinfurt raid: 197 n143, 217
and scientific war: 216-17
Bradley, General Omar: 288
Brereton, Louis: 293 n17
Bufton, Air Commander S. O.: 173
Butler, "Rab": 44
Bulgaria: 74
Lord Chatfield: 328
Chamberlain, Neville: 18, 29and British air defense: 328
Chennault, General Claire: 334
Ciano, Galeazzo: 69, 71
"Operation Citadel": 157-59
Lord Cherwell, argues for "area" bombing: 129
Churchill, Sir Winston: 129concern for French bombing casualties: 266
Combined Bomber Offensive: 209
congratulates Portal and Harris: 215
defends fledgling RAF: 324
and Harris: 129
intransigence: 44
and Leigh-Mallory: 265
on long-range fighters: 131
and Mediterranean strategy: 159
and "Rab" Butler: 44
strategy: 70
"Conduct of the Air War" (Die Luftkriegführung): 8
Coningham, Sir A. "Mary": 126
Cunningham, Sir Andrew: 160
Czechoslovakia: 19, 27German exploitation: 99
Daladier, Edouard: 29
Denmark: 35
Doolittle, James H.: 162, 236-37
Do 17 bomber: 15
Do 19 bomber: 9
Douhet, Giulioinfluences the Army Air Corps Tactical School: 333-37
Dowding, Air Marshal Hugh: 328
"strategic" bombing: 6, 276
theory of airpower: xxiii-xxivconduct of Battle of Britain: 48-49
drop tanks: 48, 223-25
opposes two-seater fighter: 328, 337 n30
and "Ultra": 47
Eaker, Iraon daylight bombing: 132
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.: 228
and fighter drop tanks: 223-24
and long-range fighters: 131, 173-74
transferred to Mediterranean: 236
on unescorted bombing: 169-70and "Overlord": 265-66
Eighth Air Force
and Spaatz: 160
shortcomings as a commander: 289
and Tedder: 160aircraft losses: 171, 173, 181-82, 222-23, 236, 242, 273, 277, 345
aircraft strength: 234
attrition: 226, 242-43, 317
and "Big Week": 226, 237-45
bombs fuel industry: 273-76, 285, 291
and Bomber Command: 173
bomber accuracy: 293 n3
Bremen raids: 232
daylight bombing: 181-82
early raids on Europe: 170
effect on German aircraft production: 191
and long-range fighters: 230, 233, 237
puts pressure on Luftwaffe: 180-81, 222, 317
Schweinfurt raids: 171-72, 191, 197 n143, 222-23, 226
targeting strategy: 191
and unescorted bombing: 223
Falaise Gap, Battle of: 288
Falk, Major W.: 133
Felmy, General: 28on bombing England: 18-19
Fifteenth Air Force: 236, 242, 291
and "strategic" bombing: 11
Finland: 71
Fischer, Sir Warren: 327
flak: 190, 199 n21188mm gun in Spain: 15
"Flensburg" detector: 216
importance of: 132
Fliegerkorp I: 48, 278
Fliegerkorps II: 39
Fliegerkorps IV: 81, 121
Fliegerkorps VIII: 81, 83-84, 87, 125
Fliegerkorps Tunis: 162
Fliegerkorps X: 73
Focke-Wulf Fw 190: 134
Focke-Wulf Fw 200: 135-36
France: 99air force: 36
Franco, Francisco: 16, 70
attitude towards German rearmament: 3, 14, 18
Battle of France: 36-39
Vichy France as potential German ally: 70
Freeman, Air Marshal Wilfrid: 223-24
Galland, Adolf
and air defense: 226, 233, 278
George, Harold: 335
asks for pilot volunteers: 244
exchange with Göring on long-range fighters: 230-31
in Italy: 164
and Me 262: 252
misses 1943 air threat: 180
pleads for more fighters: 254
and Scharnhorst and Gneisenau breakout: 135
in Spain: 15
Gee navigational aid: 130
Germanyaircraft industry: 6
Goebbels, Joseph: 103
aircraft production: 9, 12-13, 20, 88, 98-99, 100, 102-03, 136-38, 144 n129, 158, 190, 229-30, 237, 245, 251-53, 258 n86
armament production: 189-90
army. See Wehrmacht.
economic constraints on rearmament: 22
economic problems: 27
exploitation of occupied countries: 98-99
failure of leadership: 319
and foreign exchange: 31-32
insufficient war production leads to defeat: 302
navy. See Kriegsmarine.
and oil supplies: 272-73
and raw materials: 31
and Russia in WWI: 109 n61
strategic situation: 35-36, 39, 44-47, 107, 120, 122, 139, 209, 263, 302
synthetic fuel: 22 n4
war production: 96-97
wartime labor shortage: 99and Berlin raids: 215-16
Göring, Hermann: 2, 5, 11-13, 29, 134
and Hamburg raid: 169
and Milch: 132
propaganda reaction to "Big Week": 243
rages at destruction of art: 133and aircraft production: 101-02. See also "Göring program".
"Göring program": 102, 136-37
and air defense: 177, 228, 278
and army: 25
and Battle of Britain: 45, 47, 49-50
bias towards bombers: 229
disgraced by Ruhr attacks: 177
exchange with Galland on long-range fighters: 230
and fighter drop tanks: 225
and Four Year Plan: 138
and German economic policy: 98
on Germany's ability to get along without cities: 228-29
and Hitler: 228
incompetence: 12
invites attack on oil industry: 281
jokes about starving Russian POW's: 100
lacks technical background: 189
and long-range fighters: 258 n96
and Luftwaffe defeat: 182
and Luftwaffe field divisions: 119
and Milch: 100, 102
and "National Socialist" air defense: 228
and navy: 135
and night fighters: 180
on night fighter losses: 215
numbers fascination: 13-14
orders "Baby Blitz" raids: 250-51
poor administration: 101-02
in partial disgrace: 209
on pillage: 98
political status and effect on Luftwaffe's independence: 4-5
preference for planes over fuel: 276
on reprisal raids: 229
restricts flights by unit commanders: 284
reaction to daylight bombing: 301
rearmament and raw materials: 1
rules out Allied landings in Africa: 150
on the simplicity of radar apparatus: 189
and Stalingrad airlift: 151-52, 154
"strategic" bombing: 19
and "strategic" bombing proposal: 247
on supposed cowardice of pilots: 210
underestimates American productive capacity: 103
and use of women workers: 189
wants more fighter-bombers: 180
Gossler, Konrad: 7
Great Britainaircraft production: 20
Greece: 73, 75-76
air force. See Royal Air Force.
Chiefs of Staff: 18
diplomacy: 27-28
national mood (1940): 44
navy. See Royal Navy.
pre-war impact of Luftwaffe: 14, 18
Guderian, General Heinz: 109 n54, 157
Guernica, air attack on: 16
H2S (radar target locator): 166, 210, 213, 216
H2X radar: 231
Hacha, Dr. Emil: 27
Herrmann, Major Hajo: 179
Halder, Franz: 6and "Barbarossa": 82-83
Halifax, Lord: 18, 44
and Russian campaign: 123
strategic views: 120
and Yugoslavian invasion plan: 75
Harris, Sir Arthurappointed chief of Bomber Command: 129
Heinkel He 51: 15
and "area" bombing: 129, 130, 166, 169
and Battle of Berlin: 169, 221
and Bomber Command: 166
and Churchill: 129
deplores diversion of aircraft to antisubmarine warfare: 129-30
and Eaker: 212
hopes to win war with Bomber Command alone: 212-13
on leaflet raids: 128
and ocean reconnaissance: 329
opposes creation of pathfinder force: 130
and "Overlord": 221, 264
and "panacea" targets: 173
popularity: 213
and Spaatz: 212
and the scientific war: 212
strain on: 213
and "strategic" bombing: 169
Heinkel He 111: 13, 15
Heinkel He 177: 9, 11, 250as a dive bomber: 13-14
Heye, Captain: 16
Hitler, Adolf: 29, 113, 147-48after fall of France: 39, 44
Hoare, Sir Samuel: 330
and air defense: 180
and aircraft production: 11-12, 101-02, 188, 209-10, 317
Altmark affair: 33
asks staff location of Pearl Harbor: 6
attack on Poland: 20, 29
and "Operation Barbarossa": 72, 77-78, 87
and Battle of Britain: 52
and "Blitzkrieg" strategy: 30
and Cologne raid: 133
conception of leadership: 166
contribution to Mediterranean defeat: 165
and Crete invasion: 76
decides to invade Yugoslavia: 74
declares war on America: 88
demands bombardment of Italy: 250
diplomacy: 28
ends Luftwaffe resource priority: 138
fears air attack on Rumanian oil fields: 74
and flak: 132
fury over Ruhr attacks: 177
and Göring: 228
grand strategy: 69-72, 147, 319
and Halder: 123
halts night fighter operations over England: 133
and Hamburg raid: 169
hamstrings strategy prior to D-day: 264
holds back reserves in Normandy: 284
on importance of Rumanian oil: 272
on importance of West European theatre: 261
interest centered on ground battle: 228
invites attack on oil industry: 281
and Jeschonnek: 134
lacks technical knowledge: 189
and Luftwaffe defeat: 182
Mediterranean strategy: 164
and Me 262: 252
and May 1940 stop order: 38
and Malta: 127
"no retreat" orders: 285
orders Mortain counterattack: 287
and North Africa: 150, 165, 169
numbers fascination: 13-14
orders flak strengthened: 177
orders 1942 offensives: 316
orders starvation of Leningrad: 84
and rearmament program: 3
refuses to allow women to work in factories: 99
refuses to use Russian POWs for labor: 99
and reprisal raids: 134, 180, 188-89, 250
Russian campaign: 86-121, 123-24, 157-58
and "Sea Lion": 108
and Stalingrad: 125, 150-51, 154
and "strategic" bombing proposal: 247
and supposed cowardice of pilots: 210
threatens Czechs: 27
and western offensive: 33-34
Hore-Belisha, Leslie: 329
Horrocks, Lieutenant General Brian: 289
Hoth, Generaloberst Hermann: 155
Hungary: 120
"Hurricane" fighters: 47-48
Operation "Husky": 165
Italyair force: 72
attacks Greece: 73
army: 72
joins war: 72
as German ally: 120
naval disaster at Taranto: 73
navy: 72, 159
North African disaster: 73
3rd Jagddivision: 228
Jagdgeschwader II: 232
Jagdgeschwader II, II Gruppe: 244, 278-79, 288
Jagdgeschwader 53, II Gruppe: 278-79, 288
Jagdgeschwader Udet, III Gruppe: 237, 244
Jagdkorps I: 233
Jeschonnek, Hans (Luftwaffe chief of staff): 6, 12, 23 n28, 100, 158, 181and Hitler: 134
Jodl, Alfred: 44, 45, 69-70
inability to see use for more fighters: 138
and invasion of Russia: 55-56
leadership assessed: 182, 188
mobilization plans: 13
poor administration: 101
and "strategic" bombing proposal: 246
and Stalingrad airlift: 151
suicide: 182, 209
on war with Russia: 80
under Hitler's spell: 11-21in North Africa: 159
Junkers Ju 52: 13, 15
Junkers Ju 86: 13
Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber ("Stuka"): 13, 15, 37, 48
Junkers Ju 88 bomber: 13-14
Junkers Ju 89: 9
Kammhuber, General Joseph: 132, 188, 215
Kharkov, Battle of: 121-22
von Kluge, Field Marshal Günther: 284
Kersch Peninsula, fighting on: 121
Knauss, Dr. Robert: 6-7, 10
Knickebein bombing aid: 16, 47
Korten, Güntherappointed Luftwaffe chief of staff: 209
and "strategic" bombing proposal: 210, 246-47
strategic program: 246
Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert: 6, 11-12, 16
and Battle of Britain: 52
Kriegsmarine
in Italy: 164
and Malta: 127
and Mediterranean: 165-66fuel shortage: 141 n28
Kursk, Battle of: 158
Norwegian campaign: 35-36, 44
and "Sea Lion": 45-46
"Lancaster" bomber: 130
Leigh-Mallory, Air Marshal Sir Treffordappointed Commander, Allied Expeditionary Air Force: 265
Lithuania: 27
and Brereton: 293 n17
plan for bombing German transportation system: 266-67
Lloyd George, Davidconsiders ending RAF independence: 334
Loerzer, General Bruno: 37
Londonas a bombing target: 11, 18, 52
Lovett, Robert: 173
and the Blitz: 54
Ludendorff, General Erich, and total war: xxv
Luftflotte 1: 273
Luftflotte 2: 11, 18, 87, 127, 159, 160, 164
Luftflotte 3: 37, 181, 255, 273, 278, 279-81, 283, 288
Luftflotte 4: 125, 150-52, 154-55, 158-60, 247, 285
Luftflotte 6: 158-59, 246-47, 249, 273, 285-86
Luftflotte Reich: 244, 278, 280, 288
Luftflotte South East: 164
Lufthansa: 4-5
Luftwaffeaccident rate: 183, 199 n192
air defense: 134, 180-81, 224-25, 228-29, 230, 233, 236, 277-78. See also Luftwaffe night fighter forces.
aircraft losses: 40, 50-51, 53-54, 55, 76-77, 89-90, 93, 140, 142 n45, 142 n54, 151, 163-65, 179, 181-82, 199 n196, 159, 225-26, 231-34, 243, 248, 251, 277, 281, 283-84
aircraft strength: 32-33, 80, 101, 122, 275
aircrew survival prospects: 303
air doctrine: xxv, 1, 7-11, 19-21, 35, 57
air strategy: 224
and American long-range fighters: 237
antishipping operations: 135-36, 160, 165
antitank forces: 249
attrition: 88-89, 96, 100-01, 103-04, 113, 124-25, 134, 138-39, 147, 154-55, 158, 160, 163, 165, 182-83, 215, 222, 226, 237, 242, 243, 245, 273-74, 277-79, 288, 303, 312-18
"Baby Blitz" raids: 250-51
"Baedecker" reprisal raids: 134
Balkan campaign: 75-77
and "Barbarossa": 79, 81-88
Battle of Berlin: 213-22
Battle of Britain: 39-56
and "Baby Blitz": 247
and "Big Week": 237-45
and bombing accuracy: 16
bombing of Belgrade: 75
Cherkassy airlift: 248
and "Citadel": 158-59
and civil aviation: 4
and Cologne raid: 133
complicity in Nazi crimes: 78-79
and Crete invasion: 76
creation of "Fighter Staff": 254
deficiencies in strategic thinking: xxv
Demyansk airlift: 119
as a deterrent: 28-29, 31
and Dieppe raid: 135
Dunkirk: 38-39
"Eagle Day": 48, 50
economic and strategic constraints on development: 3, 20
emphasis on unit cohesion: 232
as a factor in Hitler's strategic calculations: 33
field divisions: 119
and fighter drop tanks: 225
General Staff: 11
general staff intelligence section: 28
and German ground strategy: 19
and Germany's overall strategic situation: 1
impact, 1933-39: 14-19
intelligence service: 47
Kholm airlift: 119-20
"Knickebein" blind bombing system: 47
leadership deficiencies: 20
logistics in Russia: 79
loses air superiority in Europe: 209
loss of leading aces: 244
maintenance system: 94
May 1940 campaign: 36-39
Mediterranean theater: 74
misuse of bombers for ground support: 119
and maintenance: 14
and "Market Garden": 290
mobilization plans: 13
and Moscow, Battle of: 87-88
nearly constant frontline strength: 303
night bombing: 20, 55-56
night fighter force: 132, 134, 177, 179, 199 n206, 213-15, 216-18, 221-22, 224, 232
after Normandy: 288
in North Africa: 159-63
Norwegian campaign: 35
origins of its air aces: 312
and "Overlord": 279-80, 280-85
pilot training: 94-95, 160, 163, 254-55, 275, 277-78, 303
Polish campaign: 30-31
preparations for war on Britain: 18
prewar expansion: 6
quality of higher leadership: 100
quality of officer corps: 6
readiness for Czech crisis: 17-18
role in German strategy: 6, 29
in Russia: 113-25, 158, 247-49, 285-86
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau breakout: 135
and "Sea Lion": 45
seizure of Eban Emael: 37
Spanish Civil War: 15-16
and Stalingrad: 124-25, 147-55
and "strategic" bombing: 3, 8-11, 19-21
strategic situation: 191-92, 209, 245, 255, 283-84, 291, 317
stress on unit cohesion: 318
supply system: 94
swamped by Allied numbers: 318
and "strategic" bombing in Russia proposal: 246-50
transition to modern aircraft: 13, 17-18
transport force: 119-20
and total war: 9-10
use of Russian theater as a flying school: 278
varieties of attrition: 316-18
and 1940 offensive: 32-34
Maginot Line: 14
Malta, and Axis convoys: 126-27
von Manstein, Field Marshal Erich: 6and Göring: 154
Operation "Market Garden": 290
in Russia: 121, 248
after Stalingrad: 155
strategy in Russia: 157
Marcks, General Erich: 77
Martini, General: 215
Messerschmitt, Me 109. See Bf 109.
Messerschmitt, Me 110. See Bf 110.
Me 262: 252-53
Mers-el-Kebir: 44
Messerschmitt, Willi: 252
Milch, Erhard: 6, 7, 12, 13, 94, 100, 102-03, 112 n150, 181and air defense: 177
Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau, and "strategic" bombing: 10
and aircraft production: 20, 102-03, 136-38, 188, 190, 251-52, 301
appointed air ministry state secretary: 5
on bombing threat: 179-80
concerned about bombing: 228-29
on control of French workers: 261 n195
and creation of "Fighter Staff": 254
estimates dead at Hamburg: 196 n119
and "Göring program": 136
and Messerschmitt: 252
plans expansion of air strength: 119
reorganizes after Stalingrad: 155
and reprisal raids: 177
and Richthofen: 154
and Speer: 137
and Stalingrad airlift: 154
urges use of women workers: 189
Mitchell, William "Billy":and pursuit aircraft: 332
Mölders, Werner: 177
and "strategic" bombing: 333-37
"Monica" radar detector: 216
Montgomery, General Bernard: 288failure at Antwerp: 289-90
Molotov, Vyacheslav: 70, 72
and "Market Garden": 290
takes command of Eighth Army: 127
Mussolini, Benito: 72-73
"Naxos" detector: 216
Nazi Partyattraction to military: 9-10
Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact: 28
and raw materials: 31
and total war: 9-10
Ninth Air Force: 236, 286
1934 Non Aggression Pact with Poland: 14
Netherlands: 36-38
Norstad, Lauris: 162
1st Night Fighter Division: 132
Norden bombsight: 335
Norway: 35
Oboe radar bombing aid: 166, 210, 265
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW): 127, 159and "Citadel": 157
Operation "Overlord"
and German rearmament: 2-3
and Stalingrad: 150and air attacks on railways: 267, 271-72
D-day: 280-81
execution of: 280-85
and "strategic" bombing: 264-72
Peltz, Dietrich: 250-51
P-38 fighter, equipped with drop tanks: 230
P-47 fighter, equipped with drop tanks: 171, 230
P-51 fighter, development: 224
Park, Keith: 50
Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich: 150, 154
Pétain, Marshal Henri Phillipp: 70
Poland: 19, 30-31Britain's guarantee to: 28
Operation "Pointblank": 266-67
air force: 31
Portal, Sir Charles: 56
on long-range fighters: 131
Pound, Admiral Dudley: 44
and "Overlord": 265-66
pushes for reprisal raids: 128
Quesada, Elwood: 162
Raeder, Erich: 35, 58 n46
Red Air Force: 80aircraft losses: 82
Red Army: 285-86
and Battle of Moscow: 87-88
at Stalingrad: 155Germans underestimate: 78
Reichswehr: 5
and Stalingrad: 125, 147-55and military aviation: 4. See also von Seeckt.
von Ribbentrop, Joachim: 71
von Richthofen, Field Marshal Wolfram: 37develops close support tactics in Spain: 15
von Rohden, Herhudt: 10
bombing of Warsaw: 31
and Göring: 154
in Italy: 164
and Jeschonnek: 152
and Luftwaffe field divisions: 141 n20
reorganizes after Stalingrad: 155
in Russia: 84, 121-22, 124-25
and Stalingrad airlift: 151-53
Rommel, Field Marshal Irwin: 127, 147, 150on Normandy fighting: 284
Roosevelt, Franklin, and Mediterranean strategy: 159
tactical genius: 126
as a strategist: 74
strategy to hold France: 263
Rotterdam, bombing of: 20, 37-38
Royal Air Forceair defense: 327-29
RAF. See also Bomber Command.
air doctrine: xxiii
and Battle of Britain: 45-56
and bombing accuracy: 164
budget struggles of interwar years: 323-24
creation: 321
Dunkirk: 39
early emphasis on morale impact of air raids: 322-23
emphasis on "strategic" bombing stifles other facets of airpower: 327-31
exaggerates German air threat: 330
failure to prepare for "strategic" bombing: 326-27
Fighter Command: 45-46, 50, 52, 54, 180, 236
lacked ground-attack capability: 324
and long-range fighters: 131
May 1940 campaign: 36
Mediterranean campaign: 126
neutralizes German blind bombing devices: 80-81
"strategic" bombing in WWI: 321-23
and two-seater fighters: 328
Royal Flying Corps. See Royal Air Force.
Royal Navyand Battle of Britain: 48
Rumania: 71, 120
Norway campaign: 35-36
and "Sea Lion": 46
von Rundstedt, Field Marshall Gerd: 38, 263
Sauckel, Fritz: 253
Sauer, Karl-Otto: 254
Schmid, Joseph "Beppo": 33and "wild sow" tactics: 216
Schräge Musik cannon installation: 214
on fighter tactics: 232
von Schweppenburg, Geyr: 282
"Operation Sea Lion": 45-46, 54, 70
von Seeckt, General Hans: 4elite army concept: 9
Sevastapol, siege of: 122
and motorized forces: 22 n18
Sicherheitsdienst (SD), reports on German morale: 300-01, 320 n2
Sixth Army: 147, 150
Slessor, Sir John: 326
"SN2" radar: 214
Soddu, General Ubaldo, on the military life: 72
Soviet Union, air force. See Red Air Force.aircraft production: 246
Spaatz, Carl "Tooey": 160, 162
army. See Red Army.
diplomacy: 70
high command begins to allow withdrawal: 122fuel bombing plan evaluated: 276
Spain: 70
and Leigh-Mallory: 265
pushes attacks on German oil industry: 266-67
replaces Eaker: 236
Speer, Albert: 169, 215on ball bearing attacks: 191
Sperrle, Field Marshal Hugo: 177, 280
and bombing of oil industry: 273
and Milch: 137
and reprisal raids: 190
and "strategic" bombing proposal: 247
warns Hitler about oil situation: 275and Hitler: 197 n152
"Spitfire" fighter: 47-48, 134
SS (Schutzstaffel): 265Einsatzgruppen: 79
Stalin, Joseph
massacre at Oradour sur Glane: 280military incompetence: 81, 85
overconfidence (1942): 118
refuses to allow retreat: 121
takeover of Baltic states: 71
understanding of Clausewitz: 291
"strategic" bombing: 321
as a deterrent: 7
Stumpff, Hans-Jürgen: 11
and early airpower theorists: xxiii-xxv
as an escape from WWI: 335
did not invalidate all previous military experience: 299
inability to independently force German collapse: 290
and Knauss: 10
leads Germans to reprisal raids: 300-01
misuse of term: xxvi n3
narrow definition of Douhet and Trenchard: 276
and "Overlord": 264-72
proves to be attrition warfare: 302
role in WWII: 299-300
in Spain: 16
in World War I: 322. See also Army Air Corps Tactical School, Bomber Command, Douhet, Eighth Air Force, Mitchell, Trenchard, United States Army Air Forces.
"tame sow" night fighter tactics: 216
Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Arthur: 160, 162air strategy evaluated: 276-77
von Tirpitz, Grand Admiral Alfred: 4, 6
on interservice cooperation: 126
and Leigh-Mallory: 265
transportation bombing plan evaluated: 216
Lord Tiverton, Lieutenant Commander: 327
Thomas, General Georg: 79and "Göring Program": 137
Todt, Dr. Fritz: 137
"Torch": 160
Trautloff, Oberst Hannes: 245
Trenchard, "Boom"argues for "area" bombing: 128
as Chief of Air Staff: 321, 324
and Dowding: 325
low estimation of French fortitude: 324
and Portal: 325
and Slessor: 325
and "strategic" bombing: 276, 321-26
and Tedder: 325
Udet, Ernst: 5and aircraft production: 101-02, 188
"Udet" Geschwader, III Gruppe: 224
dive bomber mania: 13, 16
incompetence: 12, 100
poor administration: 101
suicide: 102
"Ultra"and attack on Panzer Group West's HQ: 282
United States Air Force. See United States Army Air Forces.
and Axis convoys: 127
and Battle of Britain: 47
impact on intelligence picture: 244
message intercepts: 179, 225, 236-37, 244-45, 271, 279, 281, 282
and North African convoys: 160, 162-63
provides warnings of Mortain counterattack: 287
reveals German armor near "Market Garden" objectives: 290
underlines impact of oil industry bombing: 273-74
warning of Battle of the Bulge: 296n 99strategic situation: 331
United States Army Air Corps. See United States Army Air Forces: 331.
United States Army Air Forcesair doctrine: xxiii
and American geography: 334-35
accident rate: 183
aircraft losses: 170
begins use of drop tanks: 225
and bombing accuracy: 164
Combined Bomber Offensive Plan: 170-71
and lessons of Battle of Britain: 56
on daylight bombing: 132
and long range fighters: 173
and navy: 334-35
and precision bombing, 169, 190-91, 331, 335-36
wins air superiority in Europe: 209. See also Army Air Corps Tactical School.
V1 Rocket: 189, 250distorts German production: 301
V2 Rocket: 189, 190, 250distorts German production: 301
Versailles Treaty: 4
Wavell, General Sir Archibald: 329
von Weichs, Field Marshal Maximillian: 151
Wever, Walther: 12chosen Luftwaffe Chief of Staff: 6
Weise, Generaloberst: 231
formulation for Luftwaffe doctrine: 7-10, 11, 21
and four-engine bomber: 8-9
Wehrmachtattrition: 118
Wehrmacht; See also Reichswehr.
operation "Blau": 123-24, 316-17
complicity in Nazi crimes: 79
dissatisfaction with troop performance in Poland: 31
effect of Polish invasion on armored doctrine: 57 n20
in Italy: 251
May 1940 stop order: 38
supply: 118
in Russia: 113-25
and "Sea Lion": 45
and Stalingrad: 125, 147-55
strength: 120
varieties of attrition: 316-18
"wild sow" night fighter tactic: 177, 179, 213-14
"window" (chaff): 167, 179, 212-13solved by Germans: 214
'Y' service: 47, 167
Yugoslavia: 74-76
Zeitzler, Kurt: 151
Zerstörergeschwader "Horst Wessel": 242-43
Zhukov, Marshal Georgi: 87, 118
Zukerman, Solly, and Harris: 212plan for bombing German transportation system: 266-67, 276
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