„LIETAJÚCE OKO“ WEHRMACHTU V SLUŽBÁCH SLOVENSKÉHO LETECTVA

• Authors: Peter Šumichrast

Title variants

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Wehrmacht’s “Flying Eye” in the services of the Slovak Air Force

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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In the introduction of the published material, the author states that the Slovak Air force, since its origin in March 1939 until its factual end in September 1944 when it lost all the aircrafts with combat value, had been fighting with the issue of morally obsolete aircraft fleet. The efforts of its representatives to modernize the Slovak Air Force fleet by purchasing the modern military aircrafts came across negative opinions of the German Air Force Command in almost all attempts. An exception in this effort to modernize the Slovak Air Force was the purchase of modern German twin-engine spotter planes, Focke Wulf Fw 189A-2. Based on the yet unpublished archival documents deposited in the Military Historical Archive Bratislava, the author introduces the topic of purchase and use of this Wehrmacht’s “Flying Eye” which were popular among pilots in the Slovak Air Force.

Keywords

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MILITARY HISTORY; SLOVAKIA; WORLD WAR II; SLOVAK AIR FORCE; WEHRMACHT

• Publisher: Vojenský historický ústav Bratislava
• Journal: Vojenská história
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 127 - 146

Contributors

author

Peter Šumichrast

• Vojenský historický ústav, Krajná 27, 821 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic