Arneken
Airman
After the blitz and dunkirk; England was stuffed with foreigners. young men who wanted to do something to revenge the Germans. Some off them wanted to join the groundtroops others wanted to do something in the air.They didn't brought aircrafts with them and where overrun by the luftwaffe in the beginning of the war. How did the RAF solved this in the Battle of Britain ?
Did they immediatly made squadrons for foreigners? Did foreigners and Englishman fight together in one squadron? Did the RAF refused these pilots who had some training in the fighters off the country the represented ? Or did they had to do some training at first?
(The first thing I now come up with is the poor condition off the Belgian Airforce who had just a handfull of Hurricanes and Spits in 1940 and flew with outdated planes.)
I'm pretty sure that some polish pilots served in a "regular" squadron and where known as daredevils because in all weather types they flew to get them some "hun killing-fun", like I once read.
But what with the Belgians,Dutch,French,Danish,Finnish,... Pilots?
Most Belgian pilots only saw action after 1940-1941 and most off them in Africa with Blenheims. Some off them got themselves Hurricanes and Spitfires and fought over Europe. Who doesn't know the story of Baron Jean de selys-Longchamps who strafed the gestapo-building in Brussels.
But now I'm just saying this who have got nothing to do with my questions. So how (is this word with or without the 'w'?) was it with the foreigners in Battle of Britain?
Many thanks
Arneken
Did they immediatly made squadrons for foreigners? Did foreigners and Englishman fight together in one squadron? Did the RAF refused these pilots who had some training in the fighters off the country the represented ? Or did they had to do some training at first?
(The first thing I now come up with is the poor condition off the Belgian Airforce who had just a handfull of Hurricanes and Spits in 1940 and flew with outdated planes.)
I'm pretty sure that some polish pilots served in a "regular" squadron and where known as daredevils because in all weather types they flew to get them some "hun killing-fun", like I once read.
But what with the Belgians,Dutch,French,Danish,Finnish,... Pilots?
Most Belgian pilots only saw action after 1940-1941 and most off them in Africa with Blenheims. Some off them got themselves Hurricanes and Spitfires and fought over Europe. Who doesn't know the story of Baron Jean de selys-Longchamps who strafed the gestapo-building in Brussels.
But now I'm just saying this who have got nothing to do with my questions. So how (is this word with or without the 'w'?) was it with the foreigners in Battle of Britain?
Many thanks
Arneken