GERMANY'S COLORS OF WAR Covering the mingled paint schemes of the Luftwaffe During the spring and early summer of 1940 Hitler - although preoccupied with his offensives in Western Europe - was already making plans for an attack upon Russia.GERMANY'S COLORS OF WAR Covering the mingled paint schemes of the Luftwaffe During the spring and early summer of 1940 Hitler - although preoccupied with his offensives in Western Europe - was already making plans for an attack upon Russia. He was therefore anxious to avoid becoming involved in any other conflict which might delay his offensive into Russia, moreover in September 1940, Germany's unpredictable ally Mussolini staged an unfortunate attack from the Italian colony of Libya against British-occupied Egypt and, moreover, had already parole to Hitter about an attack at Italy against Greece. By trying each means to maintain a balance in the Mediterranean, Hitler assume the office ofed for a while in restraining Mussolini from opening this head while he tried to trans form the Balkans into a satellite region through peaceful diplomacy. The Balkans interested Hitler greatly. The reason, quite apart from the planned attack in succession Russia, was Germany's great prop upon Rumania for oil. At that time, the Rumanian oil fields were safely beyond the range of the nearest RAF aircraft, the closest being stationed in Palestine and Egypt moreover if British forces moved into Greece ostensibly to assist the classics in any war against Italy, that would place the oil fields within range of the RAF's bombers. Jagdwaffe Vol 3 Section 1: Strike in the Balkans April-May 1941 by means of Eric Mombeek, Jean-Louis Roba, and Martin Pegg (Specialty Pres $2495) is a real detailed look at Luftwaffe fighter activity in the Balkans during the spring of 1941 when German forces got embroiled in a conflict which seriously, a certain number of say fatally, delayed the start of Barbarossa. The work is part of an extensive series forward the complex subject of Luftwaffe camouflage and markings and, through picking such a brief and specific time period, is able to pack in a portion of detail with 250 black and white photographs and 30 color paintings and maps. The part nicely reproduced, is certainly commited for any World War brace aviation buff and can be ordered from Specialty at (800) 895-4585 Copyright Challenge Publications Inc. May 2003 |
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