17.12.2007, 12:37
Can you explain more about the FIAT's stationed there. What group did they belong to and what function did they have? A bit far for the Battle of britain I guess.
Souburg (Vliegpark Vlissingen) was home of one of the two flying schools of LVA - dutch Army Aviation Department. I don't know whether they were transferred there in 1939-1940 to stay out of harms way. The other one was on the Isle Texel. That one is outside the map.
There were about 25 training planes of the Fokker S-IV and Fokker S-IX type available. May 1940 they were hidden in orchards around the field. The school staff and students tried to escape to the south with their planes, some ending up in Caen in the Normandy, France. I don't know how many students and instructors crossed over to England. The Polikarpov U-2 is a nice stand in for the S-IV.
Souburg (Vliegpark Vlissingen) was home of one of the two flying schools of LVA - dutch Army Aviation Department. I don't know whether they were transferred there in 1939-1940 to stay out of harms way. The other one was on the Isle Texel. That one is outside the map.
There were about 25 training planes of the Fokker S-IV and Fokker S-IX type available. May 1940 they were hidden in orchards around the field. The school staff and students tried to escape to the south with their planes, some ending up in Caen in the Normandy, France. I don't know how many students and instructors crossed over to England. The Polikarpov U-2 is a nice stand in for the S-IV.