독일 본토 방공전(독일어: Reichsverteidigung 라이히스페르타이디궁[*], 영어: the Defence of the Reich 더 디펜스 오브 더 라이히[*])은 제2차 세계 대전 때 독일 국방군공군이 수행한 전략방어전을 말한다. 당시 독일 공군의 전략목표는 서방 연합국의 전략폭격이 독일 민간인들과 군수산업 및 민간산업들을 파괴하는 것을 막는 것이었다. 밤낮을 가리지 않은 항공전에 수천 여 기의 항공기들이 동원되었다. 독일 본토 방공전은 역사상 가장 긴 항공전이었으며, 대서양 전투, 연합국의 독일 봉쇄와 함께 제2차 세계대전에서 가장 긴 전역이었다.
↑Royal Air Force Germany Since 1945, p. 19-20 "In all, (only RAF) 4,810 aircraft (3,077 in Germany, 1,146 in Denmark, 579 in Norway, 8 in Belgium) and 291 gliders were discovered in the British Zone of Occupation and the liberated countries. All of these were potentially flyable and the numbers excluded wrecks and carcases which were immediately classified as scrap. [...] The final extermination of the Luftwaffe effectively began on 6th November when the first instructions were given for the destruction of fighter and bomber aircraft held in the British Zone. Generally, the destruction technique involved blowing off the engines with captured explosives and reducing the remainder of the airframe to manageable proportions by the further use of explosives or heavy cutting gear."
↑Edward B. Westermann. "FLAK, German Anti-Aircraft Defenses 1914–1945". London. 2001. Page 196: "Throughout 1944, the flak lost an average of 380 88-mm flak guns per month as a result of excessive wear or destruction, a rate of consumption twice that of 1943 and nine times greater than in 1942."
↑Frankland and Webster (Vol 3) 2006, p. 268. Figures for June to December 1944.
↑Frankland and Webster (Vol 2) 1961, p. 253. Figure given in footnote: Period October 1943 to July 1944.
.svg){kind=small}
.svg){kind=small}
.svg){kind=small}
.svg){kind=small}
.svg){kind=small}
