A Rare WW2 Luftwaffe General's Visor Cap Wreath and Cockade in Gold Bullion On Blue

To gear for the European war, the Luftwaffe needed a high command equivalent to Army (Oberkommando des Heeres OKH) or Navy (Oberkommando der Marine OKM). Thus on 5 February 1935, Air Force Command (Oberkommando Der Luftwaffe OKL) was created. Then in 1939, the Luftwaffe was again reorganised. The credit for the formation of a true Air Force High Command goes to General der Flieger Gunther Korten commander of Air Fleet 1 and his Chief of Operations General der Flieger Karl Koller. They both campaigned to carve out a command out of Goring's all compassing Reich Air ministry. The intent was to put Luftwaffe on a true wartime footing, by grouping all the essential military parts of the RLM into a single command.Each Luftflotte was further divided into air districts ( Luftgaue) and flying Corps (German: Fliegerkorps). Each Luftgau had 50 to 150 officers led by a Generalmajor. It was responsible for providing administrative and logistical structure as well as resources to each airfield. The Fliegerkorps on the other hand were in charge of the operation matters related to flying such as unit deployment, air traffic control, ordnance and maintenance.

Since this structure was making ground support structure available to flying units, the flying units were freed from moving the support staff from one location to another as the unit relocated. Once the unit arrived at its new location, all the airfield staff would come under the control of the commander of that unit. Photo in the gallery of General Adolf Galland [wearing his identical version] who Mark met in the 1970's on his visit to Brighton accompanied by a British RAF high ranking officer.

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