Wehrmacht air cabs. Transport aviation of the Luftwaffe. 1939-1945: Degtev, teeth

Initially, this kind of aircraft, equipped mainly to the appearance of three-engine Ju-52 aircraft, was created in the Third Reich to serve parachute troops. For the first time, air landings were used during the Polish campaign. Then, the period of captures of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Greece, Luftwaffe transport aircraft literally “captured airfields, fortresses and strategically important bridges. The paratroopers suddenly fell from heaven directly to the enemy’s head, preparing bridgeheads for unloading the main landing. Already in May 1940, transport aircraft for the first time had to supply troops cut off in the enemy rear through the air. In the future, this function of them became the main one. Demyansk, Hill, Stalingrad, Tunisia, Kuban, Crimea, Korsun, Kamenetz-Podolsky and many other boilers formed as a result of the Nazi strategy to stand to the last, were invariably supplied with the help of the notorious “air bridges”. At the last stage of the howl …

Author
Degtev Dmitry Mikhailovich, Zubov Dmitry Vladimirovich
Editor
Calogy A. Yu.
Publisher
Center Polygraph, 2013
Series
Military aviation of the XX century