HEAVY DEATH RATE
LUFTWAFFE ACCIDENTS TRAINING CUT DOWN (Reed. Nov. 28, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 27. The recent deaths of four prominent officer’s of the Luftwaffe give some idea of the Luftwaffe’s appalling accident rate because it can be only seldom that air chiefs have to travel in aeroplanes, says the aeronautical correspondent of The Times. For many months information reaching Britain indicated an almost crippling rate in the Luftwaffe’s training and other accidents. Great numbers of pilots and crews have been killed near training schools in eastern Germany. The accidents are believed to be due to the cutting down of the training period. Some German pilots and crews shot down during night raids on Britain have been trainees and others out from training schools a few days or weeks. This seems to indicate that Marshal Goering is finding difficulty in replacing the airmen killed on the eastern front and elsewhere.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 28 November 1941, Page 5
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