By Jean-Louis Roba
No airforce within the moment international struggle may make extra use of captured planes than the Luftwaffe. With this in brain, Jean-Louis Roba has passed through a large amount of paintings in monitoring down hundreds of thousands of plane utilized by the Luftwaffe and illustrating their makes use of, careers and eventual fates. The booklet examines the whole historical past of overseas planes within the Luftwaffe, from its inception within the prewar years to the top of the second one global conflict. greater than simply an account of the Luftwaffes use of captured airplane, the e-book debunks myths approximately how ready the Germans have been for warfare in 1939, and indicates how very important even such an unreliable resource of provides as captured planes may turn into to the Luftwaffe.
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Even if the involvement of the flying components of the Condor Legion in the civil war of Spain from 1936 helped the Luftwaffe to gain some experience in new tactics, this could in no way boost the production of planes limited by the capabilities of the aircraft industry. Despite the reputation for German seriousness, the building of the Luftwaffe remained quite anarchic, and some important tasks had to be neglected due to lack of time or capabilities. Therefore, contrary to the simplifications of the above mentioned authors, the new (and too rapidly built) German Airforce was handicapped by many Achilles’ heels: the engineers did not have enough time to conceive a long range bomber (such as the future American B-17); the production of transport planes was limited, and throughout the war the Luftwaffe suffered severely from a lack of air supplies; the German industries having to build important war materials (guns, tanks, etc), and as everything had to be made from scratch, not enough aircraft were produced.
At Bourges, the Germans found many Curtiss H-75s ordered by the French Armée de l’Air from the USA. in Bourges (where they were assembled) and on the different airfields, the Luftwaffe captured many American Curtiss H-75s, in addition to those already discovered in Norway. Some were still in crates, having just been delivered to French harbours. Gr. 186). As before (with the Avia attempt), the project was a failure, a few planes being damaged in the training. /JG 77 quickly saw the US planes replaced by the ‘good old Bf 109’.
Strangely, this Avia B-534, which seems to have recently fallen into German hands (see the Ju 52 in background) has maintained its Czech fuselage code, H4 (of 4th Air Regiment), although a swastika is already painted on its fin. Formation of Avia B-534s at Herzogenaurach. A dispatch centre for that type of machine was created here. Herzogenaurach. An Avia B-534 is pushed by mechanics to its take-off position. /Trägergruppe 186 received a few B-534s. A few of them were equipped with arrester-hooks and structurally strengthened for testing on the future aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin.
