Kammala wannan jumla: Sperrle ya fara yakin da jiragen sama 120, kuma a farkon watanni hudu na farko da jiragen saman Jamus suka kasa yin tasiri. Sperrle ya rasa kashi 20 cikin dari na ƙarfinsa a cikin yunƙurin da ya kasa
kama Madrid a shekara ta 1936. Tallafin kayan da aka bayar bai isa ba kuma ya bar shi da jiragen sama 26 Ju 52 da Heinkel He 70 guda biyu a karshen watan Janairun 1937. Shugaba na Sperrle da kuma sadaukar da manyan jami'ai sun hana rushewa a cikin halin kirki. Dalilin wannan rashin nasara shine bayyanar Soviet da aka tsara da kuma gina Polikarpov I-15 da Polikarpov I-16 jirgin sama a cikin Sojojin Sama na Jamhuriyar Spain wanda ya sami rinjaye na iska. Hare-haren bama-bamai kan Cartagena da Alicante, da kuma sansanin jirgin saman Soviet a Alcalá de Henares, sun kasa. Sperrle da kansa ya jagoranci kai hari kan Sojojin Jamhuriyar Republican a Cartagena, ya nutsar da jiragen ruwa biyu. An gargadi rundunar jiragen ruwa na Jamhuriyar Republican, duk da haka, kuma mafi yawansu sun tashi zuwa teku kuma sun tsere wa bombardment. Hare-haren da aka kai kan Madrid, wanda aka jefa tan 40 na bama-bamai daga 19 ga Nuwamba, 1936, suma sun gaza. Bam din da harin ya yi sanadiyar asarar rayuka 1,119 tsakanin 14 da 23 ga Nuwamba, ciki har da 244 da suka mutu <unk> gine-gine 303 aka buge. Kungiyar 'yan bindiga ta Legion ta dan lokaci ta daina fashewar bam na rana bayan gazawar Fascist.