Fw 200 Condor vs. Atlantic Convoys - Was it any good?

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- Sources -
Chris Goss, Fw 200 Condor Units of World War 2, Osprey Publishing, Oxford: 2016.

Chris Goss, Focke Wulf Fw 200 - The Condor at War 1939-1945, Crecy Publication, 2017.

Deutsche Luftwaffe.de, Focke-Wulf Fw 200 F: Fernaufklärer mit erhöhter Reichweite, Mai 1943.

D. (Luft) T. 2661/1 Fw 200 C-1 und C-2, Vorläufiges Flugzeughandbuch, Ausgabe Juni 1940.

Jürgen Rohwer, Critical Convoy Battles of WWII – Crisis in the North Atlantic, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, 2015.

Robert Forczyk, Fw 200 Condor vs Atlantic Convoy 1941-1943, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2011.

RM 7/2383, OKM B.Nr. 129052/38 g.kdos., Vortrag Oberst Coeler vom 9.11.37 über Entwicklungsstand des Materials der Seeluftstreitkräfte, 29.11.1938.

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Sönke Neitzel, Zum strategischen Misserflog verdammt?, in Bruno Thoß, Erster Weltkrieg, Zweiter Weltkrieg – Ein Vergleich, 2002.

- Timecodes -
00:00 - Disclaimer
00:27 - Intro
01:29 - Bombers vs ships
04:32 - A question of planes [Fw 200]
11:31 - The coming of a scourge (?)
12:06 - War Thunder Sponsor
12:10 - Tactics & simulated attack
12:58 - Early operations
14:59 - Condors & U-Boats = ?
17:46 - Reading recommendations
18:45 - Reasons for success
21:22 - Fliegerführer Atlantik
21:50 - Countermeasures
23:06 - Escalation
27:36 - Condor: The Legacy
30:55 - Naval perspective [Drachinifel]
35:56 - Fw 200 - What is it good for?
37:49 - Recon is hard
40:06 - Fw 200 Restoration
40:52 - War Thunder: Sponsored Segment
41:56 - Outro

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