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______________ Luftwaffe Ground Attack Units, 1939-45
THE NEW WARFARE
Influenced by the trench warfare of the First World the step-by-step advance of the army by attacking
War, German military planners of the 1930s drew up a targets directly in the line of advance.
new concept designed to bring rapid mobility to the It was already realised as a result of tests carried out
battlefield. This lightning war, or Blitzkrieg, called for at the secret German testing and training establishment
particularly close co-operation between air and at Lipezk in Russia during the 1920s that the precision
armoured forces with aircraft primarily employed in the bombing of pin-point targets could only be achieved by
close support role, disrupting the enemy's back area - an aircraft releasing its load whilst in a steep dive
munications - and paving the way for directly over the target - the dive-bomber. American and
deep armoured rations by denying him the Japanese aviation planners were also evincing interest in
ability anise resistance or counter-attack. the idea of the dive-bomber and