Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
Fielding dedicated fighter aircraft was not exactly something anyone had planned for—other than Germany, that is. It was because of this that the Germans pretty much established air supremacy around their own borders.
Opting to ensure their planes detected enemy movements and coordinated attacks with other assets on the ground, such as tanks and armored vehicles, they employed a form of combined arms tactics that the world had not yet truly begun to understand.
The way it normally worked was that German planes acted as either reconnaissance or ground attack craft. They would spot enemy movements and send their positions back to intelligence over the radio.
Meanwhile, a strike would be coordinated on the enemy position in conjunction with artillery, bombers, and any armored reconnaissance assets hiding behind enemy lines that were in a position to strike.