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Fighter ace Col. Johannes Steinhoff commanded an elite group of pilots trained to fly the first jet aircraft employed in combat, the famous Messerschmitt Me-262, at a time when Reich Marshal Hermann Goring, by then out of favor with Hitler for his failure to stop the Allied bombing raids, denounced his own pilots as cowards. After Goring refused to deploy the Me-262 as a fighter, the role for which it was designed, and instead ordered its use as a bomber, Steinhoff and other senior air leaders devised a plot to depose Goring from his command of the Luftwaffe in the futile hope of staving off f

World War, 1939-1945 --- Fighter pilots --- Aerial operations, German. --- Steinhoff, Johannes. --- Göring, Hermann, --- Goering, Hermann, --- Goering, Herman, --- Germany. --- Germany (West). --- Göring, Hermann --- Goering, Hermann --- Goering, Herman

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Analyzes the storied career of one of Germany's most famous military leaders

Militarism --- Generals --- Presidents --- Antimilitarism --- Military policy --- Sociology, Military --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Imperialism --- History. --- Hindenburg, Paul von, --- Germany --- Politics and government