Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe

Author: Jean-Louis Roba
Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe
Pen and Sword Aviation
ISBN: 1848840810
2009
Format: EPUB
Pages: 208
Size: 7 Mb
Language: English

No airforce in the Second World War would make more use of captured planes than the Luftwaffe. With this in mind, Jean-Louis Roba has undergone a considerable amount of work in tracking down hundreds of aircraft used by the Luftwaffe and illustrating their uses, careers and eventual fates. The book examines the full history of foreign planes in the Luftwaffe, from its inception in the prewar years to the end of the Second World War. More than just an account of the Luftwaffe's use of captured aircraft, the book debunks myths about how prepared the Germans were for war in 1939, and shows how important even such an unreliable source of supplies as captured planes would become to the Luftwaffe.