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by Generalmajor A. D. Fritz Morzik

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  • ISBN: 1410201201
  • Category: History
  • Author: Generalmajor A. D. Fritz Morzik
  • Subcategory: Military
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: University Press of the Pacific (July 31, 2002)
  • Pages: 504 pages
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USAF Historical studies: no. 167. German Air Force Airlift Operations

USAF Historical studies: no. German Air Force Airlift Operations. By. Generalmajor a. D. Fritz Morzik. With an Introduction by Telford Taylor. Fritz Morzik, who began his military career as a non-commissioned officer in the German Air Service in World War I and ended it as Armed Forces Chief of Air Transport in World War II, is especially well qualified to write the present study. His long career, spanning two world wars, and his experience with both civilian and military transport aircraft testify to the breadth of his practical knowledge.

Generalmajor a. Fritz Morzik, who began his military career as a non-commissioned officer in the German Air Service in World War I and ended it as Armed Forces Chief of Air Transport in World War II, is especially well-qualified to write the present study.

German Air Force Airlift. has been added to your Cart. All major airlift operations of the war are covered, including little-known episodes like the transfer of 22nd Airlanding Division to guard the Ploesti oil fields during the spring of 1941, and an airlift to German anti-partisan forces evacuating across Yugoslavia in late 1944 and early 1945.

Morzik was a winner in the first International Tourist Plane Contest Challenge and the second Challenge in 1930. In 1935 he started service in the Air Force (Luftwaffe), as a commandant of pilots' school. In World War II he became a head of Luftwaffe Transport Command, in a rank of Generalmajor. After the war he wrote a detailed story of German transport aviation during the war: Die deutschen Transportflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Frankfurt am Main, 1966) and German Air Force Airlift Operations (New York: Arno Press, 1968).

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Franz Kurowski, Generalmajor Erich Bärenfänger: vom . Christer Bergström, Bagration to Berlin: The Final Air Battles in the East, 1944–1945 (Hersham, UK: Ian Allan Publishing, 2008), p. 46. (обратно).

Franz Kurowski, Generalmajor Erich Bärenfänger: vom Leutnant zum General (Würzburg: Fleschig Verlag, 2007), pp. 146–147. 16. Kurowski, Generalmajor Erich Bärenfänger: vom Leutnant zum General, p. 148. Fritz Morzik, German Air Force Airlift Operations (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2002), p. 240.

Morzik, Generalmajor Fritz (1961). German Air Force Airlift Operations P. " (PDF). USAF Historical Studies. Kennedy, Edward P. (e. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2018. Morzik, Generalmajor Fritz (1961).

It should be noted that the book German Air Force Airlift Operations by Generalmajor a. Fritz Morzik gives the same exact number of men lost (13 dead, 17 seriously wounded, 12 slightly wounded and 96 missing in action) for the whole operational period, not just for this mission.

Fritz Morzik (December 10, 1891 - June 17, 1985) was a German aviator and commander of Germany's World War II transport aviation. He was connected with Lufthansa airlines. Fritz Morzik was also an active sports pilot. He trained as a pilot and served in the World War I. After the war he was an instructor in Communication Pilots School in Brunswick. In 1928 he became a vicedirector of Communication Pilots School in Berlin, then its director. He was a winner in the first International Tourist Plane Contest "Challenge" and the second "Challenge" in 1930.

Friedrich-Wilhelm "Fritz" Morzik (10 December 1891 – 17 June 1985) was a highly decorated Generalmajor in the Luftwaffe during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik was captured in May 1945 by American troops and was held until 1947

Germany's imaginative employment of transport aircraft in World War II produced as many innovations as Germany's use of tanks. Indeed, like the tank, the transport aircraft was closely associated with the Blitzkrieg concept. This relationship was advantageous at the outset of the war, but it became dangerous as the war dragged on and German armies outran their surface supply lines in North Africa and Russia. Then ground commanders began to think of air transport as the means of supply. The history of this trend is one of the main themes of this study. Some of the questions embodied in this theme - How much air transport is enough? Under what conditions is an air-supply operation feasible? What are the prerequisites for a successful airlift to encircled ground forces? What are the advantages and limitations of the glider? - are as vital and controversial today as they were during World War II.

Generalmajor a. D. Fritz Morzik, who began his military career as a noncommissioned officer in the German Air Service in World War I and ended it as Armed Forces Chief of Air Transport in World War II, is especially well-qualified to write the present study. His long career, spanning two world wars, and his experience with both civilian and military transport aircraft testify to the breadth of his practical knowledge.


Reviews about German Air Force Airlift Operations (3):
Maridor
This account gives a thorough run-down on German airlift ops during WW2. It covers prewar planning (of which there was little), and then runs from the first parachute operations in Denmark and Norway through to the final, forlorn airlifts to Budapest and Breslau in the war's final months. Along the way Dr. Morzik give truly exhaustive (and exhausting!) coverage of the Demyansk airlift, which cost the Luftwaffe severely in planes and pilots. Coverage of the Stalingrad airlift is useful but less extensive. All major airlift operations of the war are covered, including little-known episodes like the transfer of 22nd Airlanding Division to guard the Ploesti oil fields during the spring of 1941, and an airlift to German anti-partisan forces evacuating across Yugoslavia in late 1944 and early 1945.

The text is generally clear and readable, although this account is extensive to the point of laborious. That is great for researchers, but I do not recommend this for your morning read. It is nonetheless fascinating in places, particularly in its description of Luftwaffe transport aircraft types, ranging from the well-known Ju-52 to the obscure Ar-232, which anticipated the USAF C-130 in a number of ways.The author also puts a heavy emphasis on the less tantalizing - but essential - logistics of airlift ops.

Illustrations are interesting, though not always visually clear. Mapping is generally good, but not as comprehensive as I would have liked. Finally, there are a wealth of informative tables, which can answer many statistical needs. This title is only appropriate for the narrow scope of readers who want in-depth knowledge about the arcane but important story of how the Luftwaffe introduced to the world the highly useful and under-appreciated art of military airlift.
Ubrise
I'm learning a lot It's not usable right now but learning is its own reward.
Elizabeth
If you are interested in this subject this is a necessary work to study. This book was written as part of an Air Force project to study Luftwaffe operations for the benefit of future operations as a tool of learning.
The Luftwaffe, despite Stalingrad, did pull off quite a few successful air supply operations before and after the debacle on the Volga. The Germans did some amazing things considering the resources...or lack of at their disposal.
This book is mainly a dry read, it is not really a book, it is a study or as the USAF called it a monograph. It was written by a Luftwaffe General involved in air supply operations, not a proper historian/writer. It has been used as the source for many other excellent books on the Luftwaffe, namely those most recently published by the University of Kansas.
While this may not help you with your decision, when I first read this book...and the others from the USAF series, I was mesmerized, my mind escaped, free from the notions presented by Time-Life histories or that of the World at War...and of late by the History Channel and Discovery Wings. What may have got me was the fact that this was a real document of history, not a story. I may also add one thing, with the gift of hindsight, I know that this work is slightly tainted by the author's view of a ten to fifteen year respite from the conflict, and also that his views may have been molded by his new "allies"(the US) and their common enemy(USSR), which is a caution that must apply to many books written in the cold war era(also guilty of this Guderian, Manstein, and especially von Mellenthin's "Panzer Battles").

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