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42 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 Strangely, the aero engine industry a vital part in aircraft production - escaped the process. ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 43 ‘Zones d’Operations’: north, east, south and southeast. The basic operational unit was the groupe, which com ...

44 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 FRENCH AIR FORCE GROUPS 1939 TITLE ABBREVIATION ROLE Groupe de chasse GC Single-seat fi ghters ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 45 167 and Douglas DB-7, tried their best but their average sortie rate of a quarter of a mission per aircraft ...

46 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 D espite attempts to modernise, by the time war was declared in September 1939, Belgium’s Aéron ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 47 1939 while returning from a leaflet-dropping raid over the Ruhr. At 06:00, K8985 of 102 Squadron, piloted by ...

48 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 state of emergency was cancelled and the Fox VIs from the 3ème Bomber Regiment’s 7^ Esc that fl ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 49 section was about to land, its leader, Cne Jean de Callatay, spotted Junkers Ju 52s of 17/ KGzbV 5 over Tong ...

50 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 Dornier was seen over Brustem and all aircraft were ordered to be dispersed under trees to prov ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 51 were lost in another raid at 16:30. The last Hurricanes were also destroyed at Le Culot. The Messerschmitts ...

52 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 W hen 806 Squadron Fleet Air Arm was formed under Lt Cdr Charles ‘Crash’ Evans in February 1940 ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 53 “FOR US GERMANS THE WORD “DUNKIRCHEN” WILL STAND FOR ALL TIME FOR VICTORY IN THE GREATEST BATTLE OF ANNIHILA ...

54 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 confirmed victory: “The Skuas attacked from above, attracting the attention of the German aircr ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 55 “We seemed to form legitimate prey for German and British defences as well as a worthwhile target for both t ...

56 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 DIRECT HITS On the morning of June 2, nine aircraft from 806 led by ‘Crash’ Evans in Skua L2989 ...

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58 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 HARBINGERS OF THE BLITZKRIEG STURZKAMPFBOMBER Above Stuka was a shortened form of the word Stur ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 59 HARBINGERS OF THE BLITZKRIEG MORE THAN ANY OTHER WARPLANE, THE STUKA WAS SYMBOLIC OF GERMANY’S LIGHTNING WAR ...

Takes Paper Doll Flight Richard VanderMeulen documents the history of a recently refurbished B-25 Mitchell bomber Paper DollPape ...