Belgian Hurricane's

[kolya1]

I think that there were something like 11 operationnal Hurricanes in Belgium at the time of the erman attack on the 10th May 1940, and that about 9 of these were severely damaged or destroyed in a german air attack on the Belgian airfield of Diest-Schafen on this very first day (while the British and the French were already at war with Germany, this was not yet the case for Belgium, and however likely it may have seemed, Belgium was somewhat surprised by the suddenness of the german attack...).

I think the survivors were engaged in combat afterwards, but AFAIK the didn't score any victories and were quickly put out of action...

Thus, Belgian fighter activity in 1940 was generally limited to Gladiators and FIAT CR-42s...


Kolya.