Luftwaffe flights into Courland in May 1945

[Andreas Brekken]

Hi.

We must discern as ju55dk does between flights before the outbreak of peace on May 8th and the flights made by Luftwaffe personnel in Luftwaffe aircraft under allied control after this date.

The latter was an humanitarian effort to aid people with both war related wounds and other non-war inflicted injuries, and as thus was no 'war effort' on the behalf of the Luftwaffe. Even if the flights made from Norway before May 8th also had a humanitarian twist to it, these would primarily be considered as flights made to aid the defense of the last non-occupied part of the third reich apart from Kurland itself I suppose... (perhaps not including the flights that started on May 8th, at this time everyone knew that the peace was imminent...)

These flights were also made along the norwegian coast in flying boats like the Do 24, and if I do not remember this wrongly, the last flights wasn't made until December 1945.

Regards,
Andreas