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(of course, the USAAF AND RAF had a quite a large role)
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I suppose the Red Air Force and men like the Hero of the Soviet Union Iván Kozhedub just stood there having some vódka… 
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...Like his order to supply the Stalingrad Pocket by air... the transport losses were appaling
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Actually this was a suggestion made by colonel general Hans Jeschonnek, chief of staff of the Luftwaffe.
Hitler didn't take this kind of decisions lightly and just by himself, that's a cheap myth.
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