Were there any enemy planes at the D-Day landings?

[BountyHunter15]

I heard there were V-1 rocket sites behind the invasion areas.

 

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[mosquitoman]

I think only 2 planes made it to the beacheads but I'm not that sure

 

[KraziKanuK]

BH

the V1 launch sites were in the Pas de Calais area.

JaFu II made about 23 claims of Allied a/c in the vicinity of Normandy on June 6. http://jg26.vze.com/ > see bottom for Tony Woods link

As Mosman said, I think only 2 Fw190s flown by Priller and Wodarczyk from JG26 actually flew over the landing beaches.

 

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[wmaxt]

It's my understanding that on D-Day 2 German planes flew over the beaches. Also the Fleet/beaches had a fighter cover consisting of P-38s only to provide Identifiable cover to the very nervous defense teams on the ships.

NOTE: this is over the beaches/ships, inland it was another story with a lot of tacticle flying including B-17/B-24 raids on German defensive positions inland!

 

[cheddar cheese]

Weren't the 2 German planes 109's?

 

[wmaxt]

Weren't the 2 German planes 109's?

I think, so Priller comes to mind but that might just be me being silly again. I got that from the book JG-26 by Don Caldwell I think, I didn't check and confirm.

 

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[cheddar cheese]

Yeah Im sure Priller flew on D-Day...But that would have been Fw-190A-8...

 

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[the lancaster kicks ass]

nice, priller's even looking at us...........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Ah I like Priller...

 

[The Jagdflieger Pips]

You all beat me to it.

 

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[cheddar cheese]

You all beat me to it.

Never mind, im sure you know more about it than us anyway 8)

 

[The Jagdflieger Pips]

Maybe, I donno if I should give myself THAT much credit.

Though.. pilots are typically over-confident anyway, so I will.


Yes. Yes I do know a lot. n_n

 

[The Jagdflieger Pips]

I believe this is the plane he flew on D-day. After rummaging a bunch of pictures of different planes he had..

 

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