Luftwaffe Efficiency and Promotion Reports for the Knight's Cross Winners: Vol 2: Volume II - Hardcover

Maclean, French

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764326589 ISBN 13: 9780764326585

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd (US), 2007

Synopsis

In World War I German and British bombers sometimes faced a few dozen light machine-guns defending the target. In World War II Luftwaffe Stuka dive-bombers braved the combined fire of over 1,000 anti-aircraft guns to sink several capital ships at Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland. In World War I hundreds of thousands of German troops fought months to gain ground measured in yards. During World War II, eighty-five Fallschirmjager captured one of the world's strongest fortifications at Fort Eben Emael, Belgium - manned by 1,200 defenders - in only eighteen hours in May 1940. As a result of these and many other deeds of valor, some 1,785 Luftwaffe officers and enlisted men won the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross - World War II Germany's highest decoration for bravery. This is their story through the eyes of the commanders of 113 of these men, as recorded in their official efficiency reports contained here. Volume 2 contains detailed biographies and official efficiency and promotion reports for sixty Knight's Cross winners, as well as biographies for seventy-nine rating commanders.

About this title

About the Author:

Colonel French L. MacLean, United States Army, (Ret.), served over thirty-four years in the Senior Service. Born in Peoria, Illinois, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1974, and later from the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies. He has written numerous history books under the Schiffer label.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd (US)
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0764326589
• ISBN 13: 9780764326585
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256