Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe Co-operation in the War against Britain, 1939-1945
The German contribution to the air war over the sea in the Second World War is associated with the great air-sea battles in the Mediterranean in 1941/42 and the Arctic in 1942. But hardly anything is known about the participation of the Luftwaffe in the battle in the Atlantic from the German perspec...
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crsagepubl:10.1191/0968344503wh285oa 2023-05-15T15:01:22+02:00 Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe Co-operation in the War against Britain, 1939-1945 Neitzel, Sönke 2003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0968344503wh285oa http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/0968344503wh285oa en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license War in History volume 10, issue 4, page 448-463 ISSN 0968-3445 1477-0385 History Cultural Studies journal-article 2003 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1191/0968344503wh285oa 2022-04-14T04:52:31Z The German contribution to the air war over the sea in the Second World War is associated with the great air-sea battles in the Mediterranean in 1941/42 and the Arctic in 1942. But hardly anything is known about the participation of the Luftwaffe in the battle in the Atlantic from the German perspective. This article illustrates the roots and the course of this important campaign and discusses the fundamental problems in the co-operation of the Luftwaffe with the navy. It shows that in peacetime the navy and during the war the Luftwaffe failed to recognize the importance of a well-planned inter-service co-operation in a theatre of war, where improvisation was hardly possible. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Arctic War in History 10 4 448 463 |
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The German contribution to the air war over the sea in the Second World War is associated with the great air-sea battles in the Mediterranean in 1941/42 and the Arctic in 1942. But hardly anything is known about the participation of the Luftwaffe in the battle in the Atlantic from the German perspective. This article illustrates the roots and the course of this important campaign and discusses the fundamental problems in the co-operation of the Luftwaffe with the navy. It shows that in peacetime the navy and during the war the Luftwaffe failed to recognize the importance of a well-planned inter-service co-operation in a theatre of war, where improvisation was hardly possible. |
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