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...beginning the Axis had the edge. Hitler had poured in air strength. His African air chief, Air Field Marshal Erhard Milch, had the advantage of air bases close to the fighting front. Milch's fighters snarled out from Bizerte and Tunis; bombers roared from Sicily and Sardinia and from the little island of Pantelleria in the straits. The farther the First Army advanced, the more vulnerable it became to Milch's stings...
...Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry on with the support of such latecomers to the military aristocracy as Chief of Operations General Alfred Jodl, Inspector General of the Air Force General Erhard Milch...
...even that might be assaulted. In Berlin the Italian and Japanese Ambassadors attended a meeting to discuss "new and important tasks resulting from the common war against the Anglo-Saxon powers." Present to explain those tasks were Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and Field Marshal Erhard Milch of the Air Force. Last June, when he launched his attack on Russia, Adolf Hitler spoke of "the tying up of such powerful German forces in the east that the radical conclusion of the war in the west...could no longer be vouched for by the German High Command...
...foreign exchange useful for war purchases, Britain gleefully added a contribution from German Air Marshal Erhard Milch last week: ?25 (in U. S. dollars) sent to his captured flier son-in-law, Hauptmann Joachim Heinrich Schlich-ting. Hauptmann Schlichting probably got his money's worth in British goods, but the Government kept the dollars. What made the British happier still was the chance to advertise that Air Marshal Milch had a son-in-law in a British prison and U. S. dollars in the bank...
Another central figure in the Luftwaffe's climax performance is General Hans Jeschonnek, who became chief of the Air General Staff in 1937 after the death (in a crash) of Marshal Milch's aide and crony, Colonel General Walter Wever...