Martin Pegg - Luftwaffe Ground Attack Units 1939-45
Osprey Publishing | 1977 | ISBN: 0894020137, 0894020145 | English | 50 pages | PDF | 10.62 MB
Aircam/Airwar Series 4
Influenced by the trench warfare of the First World War, German military planners of the 1930s drew up a new concept designed to bring rapid mobility to the battlefield. This lightning war, or Blitzkrieg, called for particularly close co-operation between air and armoured forces with aircraft primarily employed in the close support role, disrupting the enemy's back area - especially communications - and paving the way for deep armoured penetrations by denying him the ability to organise resistance or counter-attack. Should the occasion arise the air force could also support the step-by-step advance of the army by attacking targets directly in the line of advance.
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