BOB a mistake ? --- The Battle of France

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by HarryKlein

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I'll look if I can find some figures for Italy and Switzerland.


PS: Close the "other" site and never open it again

The Swiss aerial space was violated 708 times in 1940. The Swiss fighters downed 7 German planes and lost 3 airmen.

As far as the "other site", it looks like propaganda and not history.

Figures that I found on BoF (French source):

French losses: 575 planes
French claims: 919 German planes - as usual to be divided by 2 to 5 times
Total Allied claims: 1469 in 45 days
(Battle of Britain: 1408 claims in 82 days, with radar and radio control & command)

Remarkable fact: the German ace Werner Moelders was downed in his Bf109 by the French s/Lt Pomier Layrargues on D.520, and taken prisoner by the French army. He rejoined the Luftwaffe in July 1940 after the Armistice. Churchill had in vain asked the French governement to send to England POW pilots.

Pomier Layrargues was killed by Moelders' wingmen, not before downing another Bf109 in the same fight.


Best regards,
Insuber