Conversations With A Stuka Pilot [Illustrated Edition]

Brigadier-General Paul-Werner Hozzell

• Publisher: Verdun Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781782898450
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

Includes the World War Two On The Eastern Front (1941-1945) Illustration Pack - 198 photos/illustrations and 46 maps.
General Hozzel is one of a few remaining German officers who fought in the Second World War and held position high enough to allow generalizations about the war and to extract historical genre for future operations.
Due to special circumstances involving the eleventh hour sickness of his commanding officer, Hozzel, as a lieutenant, led a group of Stuka (JU-87) aircraft from East Prussia into combat against the Poles in 1939 in the first Blitzkrieg in modern war...Hozzel led his Stukas against the heavy Polish fortification on the Narwa River line and is credited with breaking them with the most accurate tactical bombing technique of the Second World War-the classic high angle Stuka attack...
Late in 1941, Hozzel moved to the Eastern Front where he had the distinction as a major, later in 1942, to command the famed Immelmann Wing. The Wing was reinforced to compose over 200 aircraft in support of the 6th Army and its advance toward Stalingrad in Aug. 1942...Later in the year, he initiated the dive bombing operations against the heavy Soviet fortifications in Stalingrad through the dense air defense network screening the city. At the end of 1942, Hozzel conducted defensive air operations against the great Soviet offensive which drove the Germans back to the Central Ukraine. His last, operation as a commander of Stuka units was during Operation Citadel in support of the southern prong of the German attack near Kursk...In late 1944, moved to the Northern Front where he ended the war as Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe Air Fleet supporting the German army group backed up against the sea in the Kurland (Latvian) pocket. These final experiences in combat against the Soviets are particularly instructive.

WWII - The War in the East (1941-1945) – Illustrations

Figure 1 Parade of Red Army Soldiers in Red Square

Figure 2 Russian Women digging tank ditches before the battle of the Kursk

Figure 3 German Soldiers advance across the steppe

Figure 4 German anti-tank guns in winter conditions

Figure 5 Germans streetfighting

Figure 6 Russian soldiers fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad

Figure 7 Russian Mud!

Figure 8 Stalin and Molotov

Figure 9 Russian roads made supply nigh impossible after the spring thaw.

Figure 10 The Air support in the East

Figure 11 German Tank Factory

Figure 12 Tiger tanks on the way to the Eastern Front

Figure 13 Tiger tank

Figure 14 German soldier with MG42

Figure 15 German Tiger in the open.

Figure 16 German soldiers in fortified house...