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Aufklarer Volume One - Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Aircraft and Units 1935-1941 (Paperback)
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Aufklarer Volume One - Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Aircraft and Units 1935-1941 (Paperback)
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This latest two-part work provides a study of another significant
arm of the Luftwaffe, the Aufklarungsflieger or reconnaissance
units. Although such operations are sometimes erroneously perceived
as being of secondary importance due to their lack of offensive
function, the Luftwaffe was very advanced in understanding the
benefits of reconnaissance. In fact no single arm of the Luftwaffe
operated at such a wide number of aircraft types and many of the
operations conducted by the Aufklarungsflieger units were of vital
importance.
This first volume will cover the aircraft and operations of the
reconnaissance units from their origins in clandestine survey and
photographic work over Poland and the United Kingdom in the late
1930s through to their first operational use during the Spanish
Civil War. They were active in the skies across Europe, from Poland
in the east to Britain in the west. They also played their part in
the invasions of the Balkans and Russia.
On the Russian and Mediterranean fronts, short-range
reconnaissance usually involved low-level missions over enemy
territory using the Fieseler Fi156 Storch and Hs126 biplanes,
though Bf109s and Fw190s were also employed on such activities.
Also included in this book will be an overview of the related
"Wekusta" or weather reconnaissance units, responsible for the
collection of meteorological data where, because of the proximity
of the enemy, normal land-based observation was not available.
These units were assigned directly to the Meteorological Service of
the Luftwaffe High Command and were considered very valuable
assets.
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