The Red Air Force versus the Luftwaffe in the skies over Eastern
Europe. June 1941: Having conquered most of Western Europe, Adolf
Hitler turned his attention to the vast Soviet Union. Disregarding
his Non-Aggression Pact with Joseph Stalin, Hitler launched
Operation Barbarossa, a full-scale invasion of the Soviet
homeland... aimed squarely at Moscow. In the skies over Russia, the
battle-hardened airmen of the Luftwaffe made short work of the Red
Air Force during opening days of Barbarossa. To make matters worse,
Stalin had executed many of his best pilots during the perennial
"purges" of the 1930s. Thus, much of the Red Air Force was
destroyed on the ground before meeting the Luftwaffe in the skies.
By 1944, however, the Soviet airmen had regained the initiative and
fervently wrested air superiority from the now-ailing Axis Powers.
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