Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority - Air Force ...

LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1
Kenneth R. Whiting, “Soviet Air Power in World War 11,” in Hurley and Ehrhart, eds, Air
Power and Warfare, pp 98-101; and Neil M. Heyman, “NEP and the Industrialization to
1928,” pp 41-42, as well as Greenwood, “Patriotic War,” in Higham and Kipp, Soviet Aviation,
p 70.
49. Yakovlev, Fifty Years, chap 2, p 8 esp; also, Robert Jackson, The Red Falcons: The
Soviet Air Force in Action, 1919-1969 (New York, 1970). chap 2.
50. Georgii Zhukov, The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov (London, 1971). p 109; Colin
Munro, Soviet Air Forces (New York, 1972), pp 24, 26-36.
51. Munro, Soviet AirForces, pp 37-38; Yakovlev, Fifty Years, paintsadifferent picture,
pp 18-19.
52. Zhukov, Memoirs, pp 140, 150, 154; Craven and Cate, AAF in World War II. Vol 1:
Plans and Early Operations, pp 79-80.
53. Yakovlev, Fifty Years, chap 4, p 46 esp; Gunston, Combat Aircraft, pp 120, 128, 151,
180, 223.
54. M. N. Kozhevnikov, The Command and Staff of the Soviet Army Air Force in the
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945 (Moscow, 1977 and trans by AAF), pp 26-29, cites the following
relevant works: A. N. Lapchinsky, Vozdushnaya armiya [The Air Army] (Moscow,
1939); S. A. Mezheninov, Vozdushnyye sily v vonvyne i operatsii [The Air Force in War and
in an Operation] (Moscow, 1927); A. S. Algazin, Obespecheniye vozdushnykh operatsiy
[Support of Air Operations] (Moscow, 1928); A. V. Sergeyev, Strategiya i taktika Krasnogo
Vozdushnogo Flora [Strategy and Tactics of the Red Air Fleet] (Moscow, 1935); P. P. Ionov,
Obshchaya taktika Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil [Air Force General Tactics] (Moscow, 1934).
55. Kozhevnikov, Command and Staff, pp 28-92.
56. Williamson Murray, Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945 (Maxwell AFB,
1983). pp 3-8; Hermann Hauptmann, The Luftwaffe: Its Rise and Fall (New York, 1943),
p 91 ; Horst H. Boog, Die deutsche Luftwaffenfuhrung, 1935-1945: Fiihrungsprobleme,
Spitzengliederung, Generalstabsausbildung (Stuttgart, 1982). the main thrust of which
appeared in English as “Higher Command and Leadership in the German Luftwaffe, 1935-
1945,” in Hurley and Ehrhart, eds, Air Power and Warfare, pp 128-58.
57. Murray, Strategy for Defeat. p 8; for a larger discussion of the role of “blitzkrieg” in
German military thought see Larry H. Addington, The Blitzkrieg Era and the German GeneralStaff,
1865-1941 (New Brunswick, 1971). esp chap 1.2.
58. Hermann, Luftwaffe, p 143; Murray, Strategy for Defeat, pp 5-6; Gunston, Combat
Aircraft, p 12.
59. Murray, Strategyfor Defeat, pp 8-9.
60. “The German Air Force,” The Economist, April 15, 1939; Edward L. Homze, Arming
the Luftwaffe: the Reich Air Ministry and the German Aircraft Industry, 1919-1939
(Lincoln, 1976), provides a detailed study of the military-industrial team that forged the
Nazi air arm.
61. Gunston, Combat Aircraft, pp 22,62-63,79, 113-17, 122-25, 146-49.
62. Homze, Arming the Luftwaffe, chap 9; Horst A. Boog, “The Luftwaffe and Technology,’’
Aerospace Historian 30 (Fall-Sept 1983). pp 200-06; Memo, Engineers at Rechlin Aircraft
Experimental Station to s. s. and s. H. A., German Air Force Policy During the Second
World War, Aug 15, 1944, trans, Air Historical Branch, Air Ministry (GB), Apr 1956, Roll K
5003 K 512.621 - VI1/155, AFHRC.
63. Boog, “Luftwaffe and Technology,” in Hurley and Ehrhart, eds, Air Power and Warfare,
pp 147-49.
64. On Kondor Legion experiences, see William L. Shirer, Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich (New York, 1960). pp 297, 300n; Hermann, Luftwaffe, p 180; Jackson, The Red Falcons,
pp 54-55; Goering’s statement appears in International Military Tribunal, Trial of the
Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal: Proceedings and Documents
(Nuremburg, 1947-1949). vol9, pp 280-81.
65. Murray, Strategy for Defeat, pp 16-17.
66. Ibid., pp 18-19; Heinz J. Rieckhoff, Trumpf oderBluff? 12 Jahre Deutsche Luftwaffe
(Geneva, 1945). pp 157-158; Collier, Air Power, pp 114-16.
67. Shirer, Rise and Fall, pp 310-1 1,488-89.571; Sir Charles Webster and Noble Frankland,
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939-1945 [History of the Second World
War1 (London, 1961). pp 45-46; United States Strategic Bombing Survey, “Oil Division
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