Goering liked loaning "his" aircraft to the KM as much as he wanted his teeth pulled out. Only about 40 Condors, most of which were unservicable at any one time (a converted civil transport???), were available to KG40, based near Bordeaux, and the crews lacked the navigation skills to accurately plot a spotted convoy's position so that U-Boats could home in on it.
The lack of co-operation between the Luftwaffe and the Navy amounted to gross incompetence (something we can only be glad that happened). The Luftwaffe had been designed as an extension of the artillery for supporting ground forces and could only be relied upon (H-U Rudel excepted) to hit something that wasn't moving! They simply never trained for maritime operations prior to the war, by which time it was far too late.
Training a naval aviator takes a minimum of two years, and that's with a fully equipped and professional organisation. I know this because my father took two years to train as a Fleet Air Arm bomber pilot (TBF Avengers) from 1941-1943, and as he admitted to me still didn't know his "arse from his elbow" when it came to actual combat for the first time.
Just my thre'pennny worth.
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