Scott here with another episode of the History Unplug Podcast.

A third Reich saw its complete and total downfall

when it was destroyed by Allied air power and manpower on the Western Front

and the seemingly infinite Red Army on the Eastern Front.

But something that's easy to overlook in the final stages of World War II

is that the Soviet Union wage a battle just as much from the air as it did from the ground.

The Soviet Air Forces assembled 7500 aircraft and three powerful air armies to support their final assault on Berlin.

In the Luftwaffe employed some of its most advanced weapons in the final stages of the war,

putting up a last stand that was just as bold as the Battle of the Bulge.

This included the M 262 jet and the Mistal, which were a remotely guided

bombcraft.

The discuss this overlooked part of World War II as today's guest, William Highstand,

author of Eastern Front 1945, Triumph of the Soviet Air Force.

We look at these specific battles, how it brought the war to an end, but more importantly,

how the entire groundwork of the Cold War is laid here.

Tactics and strategies employed by the United States and the Soviet Union

for the next several decades are forged in these critical months of 1945.

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