General of the Attack Airmen

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The general of the attack pilots was a service position within the German air force .

The service was located in the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL) and was established in September 1943. The first general of the attack pilots was Lieutenant Colonel Ernst Kupfer , who held the position until he died on November 6, 1943. His successor until the end of the war was Major General Hubertus Hitschhold .

Famous pepole

Alfred Druschel : staff officer from October 1943 to January 1945

Peter Sauerbruch : Liaison officer for a short time at the end of 1943

literature

Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945. Part II: Habermehl - Nuber. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1991, 3 volumes, ISBN 376481701-1 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b John Weal: Luftwaffe battle groups . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4728-0553-9 , pp. 58 ( google.de [accessed June 21, 2020]).
↑ Richard P. Hallion: Strike From the Sky . The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1910-1945. University of Alabama Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8173-5657-6 , pp. 180 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 22, 2014]).