On this day in history

[dkwookie]

Well according to our new prime minister it was the United States back in 1940 that put the mockers on Hitler

[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

[bobbysocks]

GERMANY: US VIII Bomber Command Mission Number 78: The aviation industry in Germany was targeted but bad weather hampered the raids. The targets were: 58 of 182 B-17 Flying Fortresses dispatched bombed the Fieseler Works at Kassel, Germany. They claimed 27-15-22 Luftwaffe aircraft; 7 B-17s were lost. 37 of 120 B-17s dispatched bombed the Fw 190 plant at Oschersleben, Germany. They claimed 56-19-41 Luftwaffe aircraft; 15 B-17s were lost. This was the deepest US bomber penetration into Germany to date. The raid achieved good results however, 22 B-17s were lost as fighters scored first effective results with rockets. 105 P-47 Thunderbolts, equipped with jettissonable belly tanks for the first time on a mission, escorted the B-17s into Germany. Other P-47s, going more than 30 miles (48 km) deeper into Germany than they have ever penetrated before, met the returning bombers. They surprised about 60 German fighters and destroyed 9 of them; 1 P-47 was lost.
....Bf 109s from II./JG 11 and I./JG 1 intercepted the bombers. But 11 Messerschmitts of 5./JG 11, led by Hptm. Heinz Knocke, hung back away from the attack. Each of these fighters was carrying a 55lb bomb underneath the fuselage with timed fuses. The fighter-bombers set themselves at 3,000 ft above the bombers and after setting dircetion and range, released the bombs. One bomb exloded in the middle of a dormation and 3 B-17s crashed together, destroyed. Free of the bombs, the fighters attacked. The fighters of II./JG 11, under Gunther Sprecht, scored 11 kills while JG 1 pilots claimed 8 bomber kills. The remaining B-17s were then attacked by I./Jg 26 who claimed 2 more bombers. The escorting P-47s of the US 4th FG then entered the melee over Holland, attacking abpout 45 Luftwaffe fighters. One P-47 was shot down by Hptm. Hermichen of I./JG 26 but fighter losses for the Germans was heavy. JG 1 and JG 11 lost 20 Fw 190s and Bf 109s shot down with 3 pilots killed while the fighters of I./JG 26 lost 3 Fw 190s.
....Goring gave orders to Milch that the aircraft industry would forthwith concentrate of defensive production. Milch then ordered the electronics industry to accelerate the production of radar units impervious to 'Window'. The objective was to be: "To inflict losses on enemy night bombers in the shortest time amounting to at least 20 to 25%."

MEDITERRANEAN: Operation 'Husky' Day 19: On the ground in Sicily, the US Seventh Army took Nicosia and pushed toward Santo Stefano di Camastra and the Canadians took Agira. Allied cargo vessels began arriving at Palermo, and Lieutenant General Harold R Alexander, 15 Army Group Commanding General, moved his HQ to Sicily. Allied surrender terms were broadcast to the Italians by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
....In the air, Northwest African Tactical Air Force light bombers hit Regalbuto, Milazzo, and Centuripe; A-36 Apaches and P-40s hit heavy traffic on the Troina-Randazzo road, bridges and roads north and west of Cesaro, the landing ground at Falcone, and buildings near Randazzo. Almost 100 Ninth Air Force P-40s hit shipping at Catania and Santa Teresa di Riva, fly patrol over the Straits of Messina, and bomb encampments.

WESTERN FRONT: US VIII Air Support Command Mission Numbers 6 and 7: The primary targets were in Belgium and France. 18 B-26B Marauders were dispatched against the coke ovens at Zeebrugge, Belgium and 18 B-26Bs were dispatched against Tricqueville Airfield, France but the mission was recalled when the accompanying fighters did not join up.

ENGLAND: A Hurricane fighter operating from Milfield airfield, near Wooler, crashed at East Fenton, also near Wooler at 10.40. The plane took fire whilst in the air. The pilot baled out and was uninjured.

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