James Holland
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To put that into some perspective, you know, a British RAF or Luftwaffe pilot would be joining their frontline squadrons with 150 to 170 hours in the logbook.
So it is that these guys are disciplined to within an inch of their lives.
They are disciplined.
There are academic tests as well as physical endurance tests.
There are academic tests as well as physical endurance tests. They are the elite of the elite, and they are extremely good. The problem they have is that there is a good number of them, but there's not that many. The Luftwaffe is the largest air force in the world in 1939, but it is already at a parity in aircraft production with Britain and Europe.
There are academic tests as well as physical endurance tests. They are the elite of the elite, and they are extremely good. The problem they have is that there is a good number of them, but there's not that many. The Luftwaffe is the largest air force in the world in 1939, but it is already at a parity in aircraft production with Britain and Europe.
There are academic tests as well as physical endurance tests. They are the elite of the elite, and they are extremely good. The problem they have is that there is a good number of them, but there's not that many. The Luftwaffe is the largest air force in the world in 1939, but it is already at a parity in aircraft production with Britain and Europe.
They are the elite of the elite, and they are extremely good.
The problem they have is that there is a good number of them, but there's not that many.
The Luftwaffe is the largest air force in the world in 1939, but it is already at a parity in aircraft production with Britain and Europe.
The French have a kind of similar-sized army, but they're very, very badly organized.
The French have a kind of similar-sized army, but they're very, very badly organized. So they're organized into different regions, and one region is not really talking to another. And one of the problems that when Case Yellow, the German invasion of the West starts, France's army of the air is spread throughout France and has its own little area.
The French have a kind of similar-sized army, but they're very, very badly organized. So they're organized into different regions, and one region is not really talking to another. And one of the problems that when Case Yellow, the German invasion of the West starts, France's army of the air is spread throughout France and has its own little area.
The French have a kind of similar-sized army, but they're very, very badly organized. So they're organized into different regions, and one region is not really talking to another. And one of the problems that when Case Yellow, the German invasion of the West starts, France's army of the air is spread throughout France and has its own little area.
So they're organized into different regions, and one region is not really talking to another.
And one of the problems that when Case Yellow, the German invasion of the West starts, France's army of the air is spread throughout France and has its own little area.
So you have one bunch of fighters and bombers in that block in the Marseille area. You have another block in kind of... and the Brittany coast and you have another block in around Sudan and you have another that. So, so consequently they're never be there. They're never able to kind of bring their full strength to bear.
So you have one bunch of fighters and bombers in that block in the Marseille area. You have another block in kind of... and the Brittany coast and you have another block in around Sudan and you have another that. So, so consequently they're never be there. They're never able to kind of bring their full strength to bear.
So you have one bunch of fighters and bombers in that block in the Marseille area. You have another block in kind of... and the Brittany coast and you have another block in around Sudan and you have another that. So, so consequently they're never be there. They're never able to kind of bring their full strength to bear.
So you have one bunch of fighters and bombers in that block in the Marseille area.