Jet Fighters: The Luftwaffe's Last Chance ? - The German Perspective

Why did the Germans switch to jet fighters like the Me 262 and He 162 over the Bf 109 or Fw 190? In this video I talk about the main reasons for this decision.

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- Sources -
Boog, Horst (2001) “Die deutsche Heimatluftverteidigung im Spannungsfeld der Gesamtkriegsführung von Anfang 1943 bis zur Invasion 1944”, in Horst Boog, Gerhard Krebs and Detlef Vogel, Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg Band 7 - Das Deutsche Reich in der Defensive, dva, Stuttgart

Davis, Richard (2006) Bombing the European Axis Powers A Historical Digest of the Combined Bomber Offensive 1939–1945, Air University Press

Douglas, Calum (2020) The Secret Horsepower Race, Mortons

Hermione Giffard, Making Jet Engines in World War II, The University of Chicago Press: 2016

Tooze, Adam (2007) The Wages of Destruction - The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, Penguin, London

Wehner, Jens (2022), Technik können Sie von der Taktik nicht trennen - Die Jagdflieger der Wehrmacht, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt.

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- Timecodes -
00:00 - Jet Fighters
00:43 - Shifting to the Jet
01:51 - Industry: Jet Economy
07:59 - Air Operations: Stop the Bomber
12:33 - Technology and Tactics
15:20 - Full Spectrum Decision
17:30 - REC Watches (sponsor)
18:26 - Let me know what you think

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