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LA LUFTWAFFE EN BELGIQUE - TOME I CONQUETE ET INSTALLATION

Reference : 9782374680453
Year : NC

Text : FR

From September 1939 and during all the 'Drôle de Guerre', the airspace of neutral Belgium was criss-crossed by the aircraft of the belligerents taking advantage of the weakness of the Military Aeronautics. The German reconnaissance planes were thus able to identify the future invasion routes. On 10 May 1940, the Wehrmacht entered the country and, until the end of that month, fighting raged in the Belgian sky, which had become a major strategic issue for the invaders. With the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force, air engagements became scarce (although still active in France), which allowed the Luftwaffe to quickly establish itself in the country to rehabilitate the airfields and military structures that could be used.

  After the French surrender at the end of June 1940, Belgium saw little daytime air combat, either during the "Battle of Britain" or the "Non-Stop Offensive" in 1941, being "protected" by the distance separating it from the RAF fighter bases. At most, ships and some ports became targets of the British air force.

On the other hand, Belgium was (like the Netherlands) on one of the direct routes used by the Bomber Command aircraft leaving at night to attack the Ruhr factories. Hence the rapid establishment in the country of night fighter units (Nachtjagd) which were to make a name for themselves (the famous 'Ghosts of Saint-Trond' dreaded by the RAF crews).

  The period 1939-1942 was thus contrasted with bloody fights during the offensive in the west followed by a relative peace in the Belgian skies only disturbed by a rise in power of the Bomber Command. The few intrusions of the American 'heavies' in 1942 remained 'anecdotal' although they announced a growing threat.


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Country BELGIUM - BELGIQUE
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Materials NC
Release 13-12-2022
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