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Jet-Propelled

Göring’s air force had airlifted into Stalingrad , tons of
supplies, a daily average of  tons. But he had lost  Junkers
 transports,  Heinkel  bombers, and  Junkers  bomb-
ers  virtually an entire air corps. “I always believed in the stra-
tegic use of air power,” he would tell renowned American avia-
tion philosopher Alexander Seversky a few days after the war
ended. “My beautiful bomber fleet was exhausted in transport-
ing munitions and supplies to the army at Stalingrad. I was al-
ways against the Russian campaign.”
Shown the new aircraft-production program by Milch
when he received him for the first time in five weeks on Febru-
ary , , he bleated the complaint that it seemed to show
nothing new even for .
Milch pointedly reminded him that their only four-
engined bomber project had been killed off as long ago as .
The field marshal felt that Göring’s eyes looked perhaps more