Why Luftwaffe Strategic Bombers Never Happened
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Find out about the german Gamble to have NO strategic bomber force. *Try War Thunder for Free* PC/Console: https://wtplay.link/militaryaviationhistorywt Mobile: https://wtm.game/militaryaviationhistory Why did Germany and the Luftwaffe not have long-range strategic bombers? I chat about doctrine, industrial capacity, resources, manpower and more - it turns out, the Germans made a conscious and calculated gamble. Check out my books - Ju 87 Stuka - http://stukabook.com - STG-44 Assault Platoon - http://sturmzug.com - German Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com/ - Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - http://panzerkonferenz.de/ Support - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/MilAvHistory - Channel Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmpahmxWXajV0-tuMMzSzAg/join - PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/MilAvHis Partner Discounts - Naval Institute Press: 25% off with "MILAVHIS" https://www.usni.org/press/books - Key Publishing: 25% off with "MAH25" https://shop.keypublishing.com/collections/aviation-books - Mortons: 10% off with "MAH10" https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk Social Media - Twitter: https://twitter.com/MilAvHistory - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/milaviationhistory/ Bibliography/Sources Edward Homze, Arming the Luftwaffe, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 1976. Horst Boog. Die deutsche Luftwaffenführung 1935-1945 - Führungsprobleme, Spitzengliederung, Generalstabsausbildung. DVA: Stuttgart, 1982. Horst Boog. “Die Luftwaffe” in Horst Boog, Jürgen Förster, Joachim Hoffmann, Ernst Klink, Rolf-Dieter Muller und Gerd R. Ueberschar. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg - Band 4: Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion. DVA: Stuttgart, 1983. James Corum, The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940, University Press of Kansas, 1997. Karl-Heinz Völker, Die deutsche Luftrüstung 1933-1939, DVA, 1967. Klaus A Maier & Bernd Stegemann, Einsatzvorstellungen und Lagebeurteilungen der Luftwaffe und der Marine bis Kriegsbeginn, in Maier et al (eds), das Deutsche Reich und der zweite Weltkrieg, Band 2, DVA: Stuttgart, 1979. Klaus Schmider, in Me 264 Amerikabomber - Germany's Strategic Bomber Against The USA, 14 December 2023. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfaPp0f2wv8 Klaus Schmider, Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Sönke Neitzel, Der Einsatz der deutschen Luftwaffe über dem Atlantik und der Nordsee 1939-1945, Bernard & Graefe Verlag. Manfred Griehl, Joachim Dressel. Heinkel He 177 - 277 - 274, Airlife Publishing, 1998. Nowarra, Die Deutsche Luftrüstung 1933-1945, Series, Bernard & Graefe Verlag. United States Air Force Statistical Digest World War II, Dec. 1945 Williamson Murray. Strategy for Defeat - The Luftwaffe 1933-1945. Air University: Maxwell, 1983. Willian Green, Aircraft of the Third Reich, Series, Midsommer Books Ltd. Timecodes 00:00 - Axis Strategic Bombers 01:16 - Why No German Strategic Bombers? 02:12 - Early German Ideas on Strategic Bombers 07:37 - 1st Gen: Dornier Do 19 and Junkers Ju 89 12:54 - War Thunder [Ad] 14:22 - Industrial and Procurement Strategy 16:17 - Death of Walter Wever 20:02 - Did they not think about Britain, USA, USSR? 25:29 - Germany Changes Its War Plans (kinda) 27:24 - But what about the Fw 200 Condor? 32:44 - Heinkel He 177 40:24 - The Amerikabomber (mainly Messerschmitt Me 264) 46:41 - The Basing Problem 50:48 - A Naval Drive-By and other problems 53:02 - The Luftwaffe Strategic Bomber Program Audio Music and Sfx from Epidemic Sound
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