85 - Alarmstart East
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
"There are no more than a handful of Second World War Luftwaffe members alive today. Patrick Eriksson had the foresight to record these experiences first-hand before it was too late. Some witnesses ended up as senior fighter controllers. The recollections and views of the veterans are put within the context of the German aerial war history. By no means all the witnesses were from the ranks of the so-called 'aces'."
Last year I discussed the experiences of German Luftwaffe pilots fighting in the West, against the Allies, I was joined by Patrick Eriksson. Patrick has completed the second book in his trilogy looking at the Luftwaffe - Alarmstart East- this time tracking the pilots on the Eastern Front from 1941 though to the end of the war in 1945.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace |
| 0:06.3 | last year I discussed the experiences of German Luftwaffe pilots fighting in the West against the Allies. I was joined by |
| 0:16.1 | Patrick Ericsson. Well Patrick has completed the second book in his trilogy |
| 0:21.2 | looking at the Luftwaffe, Alarmstard East, this time tracking the pilots on the |
| 0:27.6 | eastern front from 1941 through to the end of the war in 1945. |
| 0:33.0 | And that will be the topic of discussion in this episode. |
| 0:37.0 | But, first I'd just like to say a big thanks to all you who support the podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | It's very much appreciated and I'm sure that I will have a little |
| 0:46.9 | extra for you of Patrick and I chatting. So look out for that. If you're not already a patron go over to |
| 0:54.0 | patreon.com slash W.2 podcast to see what it's all about a dollar or two a month |
| 1:02.0 | from each of you goes a long way to helping me as an independent historian find the time to put the show together. |
| 1:10.0 | Or for other means of becoming a patron, go to the website, |
| 1:13.8 | W.W.2 Podcast.com and click on donate. |
| 1:18.4 | Patrick, it's great to have you back. |
| 1:21.6 | Let's start with the Luftwaffe itself. |
| 1:25.0 | There's an assumption that in 1941 at the start of Barbarossa that it was better trained and better equipped than the Russians. |
| 1:36.5 | Is that right? Is that fair to say at the start of the Russian campaign? |
| 1:41.2 | That is fair, yes. By and large, the average Russian pilot would have been |
| 1:45.2 | less well trained in the average German pilot. But having said that some of the Russian pilots |
| 1:50.5 | would have had experience in Spain in the fighting the Japanese fighting the Finn |
| 1:55.1 | so on average yes the Russian pilot would have been less well trained in the Germans and the |
| 2:02.0 | aircraft by and large were obsolete. |
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