Thread: Where was Goring head?

What was fat hermann thinking when he told AH that he could supply the 6th Army from the air, in ideal conditions with the aircraft available it was never going to be remotely a viable option, hitler not mad although shakey surely would have seen that airdrops were not way to proceed?

I believe the idea stemned from a similar operation a few months earlier when a cut off Army was re-supplied by air. However because Stalingrad was already at the end of a precarious supply line I think the logistics were just too impracticle in the end. And of course the Russians had Air Superiority by the time it got underway which meant that the Luftwaffe was already fighting a losing battle ...

It would have much better for the Germans if they had used the aircrafts to airlift the surrounded army out of Russia rather for them to receive airdrops of supplies..

I agree with the idea of airlifting the experienced combat troops out of Stalingrad, to allow them to fight another day.

But I think Stalingrad was more a symbolic battle for Hitler, he would not let the German army retreat from the battle field or the city itself.