Word: erhard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Coast U. S. correspondents did see prodigious preparation and equipment for an air war the like of which was never launched before. Diligent bomb harassment by the Royal Air Force delayed this preparation, but early in August it was complete and the Luftwaffe's master, Marshal Erhard Milch, sent word through his chief, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, to the Führer that the Luftwaffe was as ready as it would...
...into the German Air Force began a dozen years ago, but its physical entities-the men and machines-were assembled beginning in 1935. The Luftwaffe is only five years old. Its history was embodied in the activities of two men-Hermann Wilhelm Göring and his right hand, Erhard Milch. Their air force can be credited almost entirely to the execution by Milch of a program that was conceived by Göring and encouraged by Hitler long before they gained political control of Germany...
...when Hitler was ready to build up his Luftwaffe openly, they had man power in training, factories planned, designs developed. These they standardized and limited to a few models for mass production by four main companies-Junkers, Dornier, Heinkel, Bayrische Flugzeugwerke (Messerschmitt). Standardization and mass production are Erhard Milch's passions, right down to his fliers' toothbrushes. The Junkers 87 dive bomber is his special pet. Udet got the idea for it from the U. S. Navy...
...Waterloo, British officers danced till dawn. Last week, as another no less significant zero hour approached, Germans did equally strange things. Adolf Hitler, as well as Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Goring's half-Aryan Air Chief of Staff, Colonel General Erhard Milch, and numerous high Army officers all went to the theatre. Ordinary Germans flocked to the just opened Kurfurstendamm street cafes where young couples enjoyed the privacy of darkness, and oldsters listened to the newest song hit, Woodpecker's Serenade. Foreign correspondents switched off their teletypes and went home to bed. When...
Active commander of the Air Force and No. 2 German airman is Lieut. General Erhard Milch. General Milch was at Karinhall last weekend, and so was Chief of Staff General Hans Jeschonnek. They had a machine that might destroy a large segment of Western civilization. They may have discussed trying to do so, because this week the German Embassy in Washington took pains to warn that if Britain and France endangered civilians with more active warfare (see p.30) Germany would "retaliate blow for blow." It was respect for Hermann Göring's mighty machine that caused...