Word: erhards
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...French Coast U. S. correspondents did see prodigious preparation and equipment for an air war the like of which was never launched before. Diligent bomb harassment by the Royal Air Force delayed this preparation, but early in August it was complete and the Luftwaffe's master, Marshal Erhard Milch, sent word through his chief, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, to the Führer that the Luftwaffe was as ready as it would...
...into the German Air Force began a dozen years ago, but its physical entities-the men and machines-were assembled beginning in 1935. The Luftwaffe is only five years old. Its history was embodied in the activities of two men-Hermann Wilhelm Göring and his right hand, Erhard Milch. Their air force can be credited almost entirely to the execution by Milch of a program that was conceived by Göring and encouraged by Hitler long before they gained political control of Germany...
...when Hitler was ready to build up his Luftwaffe openly, they had man power in training, factories planned, designs developed. These they standardized and limited to a few models for mass production by four main companies-Junkers, Dornier, Heinkel, Bayrische Flugzeugwerke (Messerschmitt). Standardization and mass production are Erhard Milch's passions, right down to his fliers' toothbrushes. The Junkers 87 dive bomber is his special pet. Udet got the idea for it from the U. S. Navy...
...When Erhard Milch was made a Marshal last month, absent from the ceremonies were two of his closest colleagues, who were made Marshals also. These were Albert Kesselring and Hugo Sperrle. They were all busy in the newly occupied areas, getting ready their air fleets for the grand attack on Great Britain. Like Milch, Kesselring was an artillery officer in the last war, switching to the air in 1933. He helped plan the Poland offensive and directed Air Fleet No. 1 in it. A tall, well-built, happy-go-lucky Bavarian, he is probably the Luftwaffe's most popular...
...Waterloo, British officers danced till dawn. Last week, as another no less significant zero hour approached, Germans did equally strange things. Adolf Hitler, as well as Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Goring's half-Aryan Air Chief of Staff, Colonel General Erhard Milch, and numerous high Army officers all went to the theatre. Ordinary Germans flocked to the just opened Kurfurstendamm street cafes where young couples enjoyed the privacy of darkness, and oldsters listened to the newest song hit, Woodpecker's Serenade. Foreign correspondents switched off their teletypes and went home to bed. When...