Reference Lists/Luftwaffe
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Luftwaffe Reference List
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[edit] Related Subjects
- German Aircraft Production to 1941
- Lipetsk Airfield
- Luftwaffe C3I on the Eastern Front
- Top World War II Fighter Aces
[edit] People
| Barkhorn, Gerhard | German fighter ace during World War II, and the second highest scoring ace all time with 301 victories, second only to Erich Hartmann |
| Batz, Wilhelm | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces of World War II |
| Bob, Hans-Ekkehard | |
| Bär, Heinrich | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces of World War II |
| Dessloch, Otto | |
| Dickfeld, Adolf | German fighter ace during World War II, fought on several fronts and ended the war flying the He 162 |
| Ehrler, Heinrich | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces of World War II, who flew mostly on the Northern Front unlike most other German aces |
| Felmy, Hellmuth | |
| Galland, Adolf | World War II German fighter ace and air commander |
| Graf, Hermann | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces of World War II |
| Hannig, Norbert | Luftwaffe fighter ace in WW II, credited with 42 kills |
| Hartmann, Erich | German fighter pilot during World War II, and the highest scoring fighter ace in history with 352 victories. |
| Holle, Alexander | |
| Keller, Alfred | One of Germany's senior air commanders during World War II |
| Kesselring, Albert | Luftwaffe Chief of Staff (1936-37) |
| Kittel, Otto | Germany's fourth highest scoring fighter ace of World War II, with a total of 267 victories |
| Korten, Günther | One of the senior German air commanders during World War II |
| von der Lieth-Thomsen, Hermann | German aviation pioneer and Luftstreitkräfte Chief of Staff during World War I |
| Löhr, Alexander | Commander of the Austrian Air Force in the mid-1930s, and later a senior commander in the Luftwaffe during World War II |
| Nowotny, Walter | One of Germany's highest-scoring fighter aces of World War II, with 258 victories |
| Rall, Günther | Germany's third-highest scoring ace of World War II, and the third-highest scoring ace of all time with 275 victories |
| von Rohden, Hans-Detlef | Luftwaffe general staff officer, airpower theorist, and supporter of the use of strategic bombing |
| Rudorffer, Erich | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces during World War II, who fought in all major German theaters of war |
| Sperrle, Hugo | German observer pilot during World War I, commander of the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War, and a senior Luftwaffe commander during World War II |
| Stumpff, Hans-Jürgen | One of Germany's senior air commanders during World War II |
| Trautloft, Hannes | Luftwaffe fighter ace (58 victories) who was amongst the first German volunteer pilots to fight in the Spanish Civil War, and went on to fight in Poland, the Battle of Britain, and on the Eastern Front through the end of the war. |
| von Richthofen, Wolfram | Brother of the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richtofen and World War I ace in his own right, who became one of the finest tactical air commanders of World War II |
| Wever, Walther | The Luftwaffe's first Chief of Staff, 1933-1936 |
| Wilberg, Helmuth | German World War I aviator (with German pilot's license #26) and later a senior commander in the Luftwaffe |
[edit] Aircraft
| Do 19 | Prototype for a German four-engine heavy bomber |
| Do 217 | German World War II-era twin-engined bomber |
| Fw 190 | One of Germany's leading fighters during World War II |
| Ju 88 | German World War II-era twin-engined bomber |
| Me 163 Komet | German built World War II rocket-powered interceptor. |
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[edit] Articles
| Title | Author | Journal | Volume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Lesson of History: The Luftwaffe and Barbarossa | Ratley, Lonnie O. | Air and Space Power Journal (Air University Review) | Vol. XXXIV, No. 3 (March-April 1983) |
| First Airborne ELINT Collection? | NSA Cryptologic Spectrum | Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter 1974) | |
| Hitler's Luftwaffe from the Top Down | Goss, Chris | FlyPast | No. 315 (October 2007) |
| Spanish Civil War: German Condor Legion's Tactical Air Power | Musciano, Walter A. | Aviation History Magazine | September 2004 |
| Too Little, Too Late: An Analysis of Hitler's Failure in August 1942 to Damage Soviet Oil Production | Hayward, Joel | Journal of Military History | Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2000) |
