189 - The Stalingrad Airlift
The WW2 Podcast
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Did Stalingrad Put an End to German Ideas of Air Lifting Support of Ground Troops?
There were pockets as the Germans pulled back from Russia and into Poland. Breslau was sieged and they supplied that by air. There was a town called Glugau, which was supplied by air. And even in the west, you had the garrison at Sherburg. These little isolated German garrisons that held out with Hunken one 11s flying over miles and miles and miles of Allied occupied territory to drop supplies. They held out until the very end.
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