North Sea Recon & Other Activity

[Carl Schwamberger]

Looking for fast info on Brit/German air activity over the North Sea, particualry air recon. & recon interception. Also ASW patrols& anti shipping activity.

For the air recon aircraft types 1939-1942 & common altitudes of the missions.

If any experts can give me a brief, or a link to a on line source it would be greatly appreciated.

Book titles, rare & common are appreciated as well.

Thanks

[RossGmann]

Hi Carl the following link

http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&sour...3a06b86d76345e

May be of Interest/Help to you

Kind regards

Ross

[Carl Schwamberger]

Thanks for the link

[Brian Bines]

A paperback by J.P.Foynes called ' The Battle of the East Coast 1939-1945 might be a help its ofton available on Amazon,

Regards

Brian Bines

[leonventer]

Hi Carl,

This book should be useful to you:

• "Der Einsatz der deutschen Luftwaffe uber dem Atlantik und der Nordsee 1939-1945" by Neitzel, published by Bernard & Graefe, 1995, ISBN: 3763759387

Out of print but not hard to find. If you need it, I can provide more detail about the contents when I get home tonight.

Hope that helps,
Leon Venter

[Markus Becker]

"Fledgling Eagles" by Christopher Shores has detailed info on the air war during the Phoney war, which wasn´t phoney in the air.

"The Right of the Line" has more general info about the perils Costal Command faced early in the war. Their main plane the Anson could not even reach the coast of Norway and carried only very few anti-sub bombs, which happened to be useless anyway. The Hudson was a big improvement in terms of range. An anti shipping capability didn´t exist until the Beauforts and Beaufighters were introduced.

[Carl Schwamberger]

Thanks for all those. I'm probablly wrong, but have the impression most reconissance was at medium or lower altitude. Aircraft capable of high altitude flight were rare through 1941. Most flights over the North Sea seem to have been ASW patrols at lower altitude.