The 'Blue Squadrons': The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944
The 'Blue Squadrons': The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944 When on June 22, 1941, the news of the attack that the Third Reich had initiated against the Soviet Union reached Spain, it was received…
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The 'Blue Squadrons': The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944
When on June 22, 1941, the news of the attack that the Third Reich had initiated against the Soviet Union reached Spain, it was received with great satisfaction, since it was not in vain that they had just come out of a civil war in which the Soviet Union had been defeated. The formation of the Blue Division was already underway. communism that they wanted to impose with the help of the USSR.General Francisco Franco, chief of the Spanish state, offered to send a Volunteer Unit to fight on the Eastern Front alongside the German army, an offer that was accepted by the German government two days later.
But the Spanish Air Force also wanted to participate in the aerial fight against the USSR and promptly began preparations to organize a series of several successive squadrons, each one of which would act at the front for six months.During the story of the combats between
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