What's a war machine without the gears to make it go? In this episode, learn about the workings of the Luftwaffe. From the symptoms of serious organisational flaws like Unternehmen Wikinger to the Seenotdienst units who put their lives on the line to save those who found themselves at the mercy of the sea. Training, reconnaissance, coastal patrol, bombing, air-sea rescue, and every other role the Luftwaffe filled are all explored here!

The first part of the episode detailed inventory, and there's some of that here, too, along with footage of the operations and aircraft of these unique units and the men who served in them. Interservice collaboration with Dönitz's Unterseebootwaffe, minelaying missions and torpedo runs with the Küstenfliegergruppen, the daring rescues of the Seenotdienst, the eyes in the sky that were the Aufklärungsgruppen (See), mine hunting with the Minensuchgruppe, and the mundane but necessary duties of making the pilots and aircrew of tomorrow in the Flugzeugführerschulen (See) and Fliegerwaffenschulen (See): all of this and more in this chapter of "Luftwaffe at Sea."




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