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189 - The Stalingrad Airlift

The WW2 Podcast

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The Lutvaf, a General's View, Full Well, This Can't Be Done.

Angus says Paulus should have broken out of the pocket. But he was a flat commander and didn't understand what it took to fly 70, 80, 90 transport aircraft into an airfield that's got 30 centimetres of snow on it. He said, look, this can't be done. It just, we don't have the capacity. And there you've got off and back at his headquarters, Mario D'Antonio is saying: 'What are you doing? This isn't going to work?'

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