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The Ural bomber was the initial aircraft design program/competition to develop a long-range bomber for the Luftwaffe, created and led by General Walther Wever in the early 1930s. Wever died in an air crash on June 3, 1936, and his successor Albert Kesselring continued the project until he left office.
One of the Dornier Do 19 prototypes in flight
Wever, the chief of staff of the newly formed Luftwaffe in 1933, realized the importance that strategic bombing would play in a war. In a war with the Soviet Union, he expected that German forces would not attempt to move very far east of Moscow, which would leave much of Joseph Stalin's recently relocated industry out of reach of existing bombers. Wever proposed using a strategic bomber to target those factories, hampering the Soviet ability to fight, without the need for ground forces to advance.
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out with both medium bombers such as the Heinkel He 111, and Schnellbombers such as the Junkers Ju 88A. Support for the Uralbomber project before the start...
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The Ural Mountains (/ˈjʊərəl/ YOOR-əl; Russian: Уральские горы, tr. Urál'skiye góry, IPA: [ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ]), or simply the Urals, are a mountain range...
The absence of a strategic bomber force for the Luftwaffe, following Wever's death in 1936 and the end of the Uralbomber programme was not addressed...
advocate of a German long-range strategic bomber fleet. The Dornier Do 19 was built for the Luftwaffe's Uralbomber program under General Wever, competing...
The Ural Mountains played a prominent role in Nazi planning. Adolf Hitler and the rest of the Nazi leadership made many references to them as a strategic...
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Luftwaffe to develop a dedicated long-range bomber for the role of attacking the Soviet Union's factories in the Ural Mountain area. This concept met significant...
was a big advocate of the Uralbomber program, but when he died in a flying accident in 1936, support for the strategic bomber program began to dwindle...
enemies; Britain and France. The cancellation of Wever's long-range Uralbomber project in April 1937 was opposed by Kesselring. On 2 June the RLM relented...
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a USAAF B-24 (Liberator) bomber from 321st Squadron, 90th Bomber Group, had on 3 April bombed and damaged Hospital Ship "Ural Maru" off New Hanover Island...
of developing such a force of long-range "heavies" possible, as his Uralbomber program for such four-engined aircraft, comparable to what the United...
matters." Göring, Udet and Jeschonnek viewed the type as a "wonder bomber." The Uralbomber project, founded by Wever and continued by Kesselring and Stumpf...
Langstrecken-Grossbomber ("long-range big bomber") was needed to fulfill this role. Under the Uralbomber programme, he began secret talks with two of...
Ural Works of Civil Aviation (UZGA; Russian: Уральский завод гражданской авиации, also earlier Factory № 404) is an aircraft manufacturing and aircraft...
contemporary guide. London: Reaktion Books, Limited. p. 42. ISBN 9781780232003. Evacuation 1941-1942 Evacuation to Ural Evacuation to Northern Kazakhstan...
and most of Eastern Europe – and to either expel most of them beyond the Ural mountains or to exterminate them by various means. Under the genocidal Generalplan...
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