During World War II, the griffins of the German Empire did run amok and create the pinnacle of German armored tactics, but in reality, the Luftwaffe never found a sense of belonging. In Guderian's armored tactics, the Air Force was always the foil for infantry. Unfortunately, Guderian saw the role of tanks as the main force of land warfare, but failed to see the decisive role of the strategic air force on the battlefield, which was a big mistake made by the German army in the early stages of the war.
The Battle of Kuban was the worst defeat of this Luftwaffe. After the Battle of Britain, the Germans still did not wake up, and created a fighter team that only focused on front-line support, and in the Kuban Air Battle, Germany's elite air power was almost lost, not because of the pilot's technical problems, but only because of the fighters. Soviet pilots unleashed their deadly combat effectiveness, frightening the Luftwaffe into a cold sweat and calling these deadly Soviets "monsters."
As a result of the Kuban air battle, although both the German and Soviet armies claimed to have won, the Soviets shot down 1100 German fighters and lost more than 400 fighters themselves, almost a one-to-two battle loss ratio. But the Luftwaffe actually lost just over a hundred fighters and shot down nearly a thousand Soviet fighters.
But so what?
The Soviet army's new Yak-1 fighter is really worthy of being a good air combat player, in addition, the many fighter varieties from Europe and the United States made the Soviet Air Force look like a miscellaneous army at this time, but such a miscellaneous army gave the German army a fiasco. The Soviets were telling the Germans with their lives a cruel truth, that the suffering of blood and tears would be repaid to the Germans, no matter what the cost.
What do you think?