Josef Kammhuber retirement

Josef Kammhuber, XII air corps commander, the creator of night Reich air defence has made fatal mistake 24th of June 1943 - he said Hitler the truth.

Due to Kammhuber’s insistence by the summer 1943 his “Himmelbelt” zones were covering territory from the north of Jutland to the Mediterranean, he had five Geschwaders (about 400 of twin-engine fighters) under his command, and sixth was forming up. But he was not going to stop on this. Intelligence reports about plans of allies (especially US) to re-equip bombers aviation with huge amount of four-engine bombers made him think German night air defence will be useless against such power.

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