On this day in history

[olife]

november the 6th 1939...
battle of france,the famous dogfight 27 vs 9

27 bf 109 d of the jgr 102 lead by HANNES GENTZEN engage 9 curtiss h 75 of french air force,fighter group 2/5(armée de l'air francaise ,groupe de chasse 2/5)during a terrible dogfight,it was the end of life for the bf109 d,totaly dominated at the beginning of the war in the western front,5 bf 109 d were destroyed sure by the french pilots,5 others bf109 d probably destroyed and 0 french fighters were shoot down,after it HANNES GENTZEN was summoned in BERLIN to explain...

[Soviet Ace]

Damn, those Curtiss Hawks sure do look nice.

[olife]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

Damn, those Curtiss Hawks sure do look nice.

yes it was a good plane in 1940 for the french air force

[olife]

june the 5th 1940
battle of france,the famous german ace werner molders was shoot down...800 meters of altitude,hard dogfight between french morane and me109 e ,molders look around him ,only a lot of me109e...suddenly,booom,boom,lightings in the cokpit of molder's 109 ,the throttle handle is destroy,the joystick dive,the 109 dive...molders bail out...
the winner is the french sous-lieutenant POMIER-LAYRAGUES of french air force ,figther group 2/7 fly in dewoitine d520,he shoot down an other me109 before died ,shoot down by a me109e ...
in fact the germans pilots think their oppoments were a morane 406 but in fact it were a dewoitine d520 ,the best french fighters in 1940,maybe as good as the me109 e...

[Gilly]

July 25th

1909 Louis Bleriot makes the first crossing of the English Channel in an aircraft, taking just over 37 minutes

1915 RFC Captain Lande Hawker is the first aviator to win a Victoria Cross after defeating 3 German 2 seat observation aircraft in one day

2000 Flight AF4590 crashes on takeoff from Paris killing all 109 onboard and 4 on the ground. The aircraft F-BTSC is better known as Concorde

[Soviet Ace]

July 26, 1936: Axis Powers (Germany & Italy) decide to get involved in the Spanish Civil War

1937: Battle of Brunete ends with a strong resistance from Republican forces against Franco, but are forced to retreat from the town.

1944: Great Britain is hit with it's first V2 Rocket

1953: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on a government military base, starting the Cuban Revolution.

[Gilly]

July 27th

1882
One Geoffrey De Havilland is born

1949
And by an ironic coincidence this day saw the first flight of the worlds first commercial jet airliner The De Havilland Comet...... When it wasn't falling out of the sky!!

2002
An Su27 crashes during an airshow in Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 spectators and injuring hundreds more in what is the worst airshow disaster in history

[Gilly]

July 28th

1935 the first flight of the B17 is made

1942 Stalin issues order 227 which states anyone leaving their post without orders to do so is to be shot

1943 Operation Gamorrah. The British firebomb hamburg resulting in 42,000 civilian deaths

1945 a B25 crashes into the 79th floor of the empire state building


Meanwhile in 1940....
In the morning, a number of bombers attacked targets in Cornwall, Cardiff and Newport. At midday, a substantial Luftwaffe formation approached Dover but turned back without dropping any bombs and then dispersed. In the early afternoon, a large force of bombers accompanied by Me109s, around fifty of each, approached Dover. 74, 41, 11 and 257 Squadrons engaged them. Fighter Command that day flew 758 sorties with a loss of 2 Spitfires and 3 Me109s were shot down