Battle axe

[sparks]

Can sombody please tell me what planes were at this battle in may of 1941, both allied and axis.We are putting a historical enent together for the 13th on Fighter ace (wich you can still get the 2 week free sign up) would love any help on this. thanks

[evangilder]

Operation Battle Axe occurred in June of 1941, not May. June 15-17 to be exact. You might want to read up on a battle and know the actual dates before you plan an event like that...

Operation Battleaxe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[sparks]

Evanglider, i have done my homework on this but,what I schould have asked was;We know we had hurcs and wellingtons,but what did the Ge side have emils, stukas,88s.the MacchiC.200.The problem I have is we dont have all these planes available to us,so for the wellington we would like to sub in the mitchell d or the avenger,the MacchiC.200 the ki43 oscar.Also what model of hurricane was there the 1a, the 11c and I see no spits but some p40s also did GE have the early 110cs.just cant find the exact planes used in the battle.
so any help would be great ty

[Njaco]

Components of Fliegerfuhrer Afrika in May / June 1941:

Single-engine fighters:
7./JG 26 with 13 servicable Bf 109E-7 Trop
1./JG 27 with 25 servicable Bf 109E-7 Trop

Twin-engined fighters:
7. and 8./ZG 26 with 22 servicable Bf 110E-1

Bombers:
III./LG 1 with 11 servicable Ju 88A-4 Trop

Dive-Bombers:
I./StG 1 with 21 servicable Ju 87B-2
II./StG 2 with 27 servicable Ju 87B-2

Recon:
2(H)./14 with 13 servicable Hs 126s and Bf 110s
2(F)./123 with 2 servicable Ju 88D-5s

[sparks]

thank you sir

[GrauGeist]

The Italians had the Fiat CR32 and Fiat CR42 for fighters, Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 & Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 for bombers.

The Allied (RAF, SAAF, RAAF) aircraft were:
Fighters:
Gloster Gladiator
Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk or Kittyhawk
Hurricane Mk II

Bombers:
Douglas Boston
Bristol Bombay
Bristol Blenheim
Vickers Wellington
Vickers Valentia

[Njaco]

Those numbers are servicable. There were others on hand, but those are th ones that were flying.

Grau, I also read that there were some M. 202s available?

[GrauGeist]

Not from what I've read, NJ...the Folgore was delivered to North Africa in mid-1941, so it would have missed Battle Axe but did see alot of action on other fronts from late '41 onwards.

It was definately a premier fighter, too...sadly under-armed, but could hang in there with the best the Allies had to offer, performance-wise.

[sparks]

do we know what model of hurricanes were sent? thanks for all the help,once we have all the details in order i will post them .thanks Sparks

Sorry just read that it was the mark 11

[wangfei]

Now that is a lot of brass air fittings mod edit: link removed there is just about every type
of air fitting that you could want. Wholesale prices too. I guess these could be used as small water pipe fitting also. I
used some of the parts to make my babington wvo burner.

[lesofprimus]

[Vassili Zaitzev]

Heh, he lasted long, nice kill.

[Gnomey]

Another one bites the dust --> delete the link

[Njaco]

Talk about a battleaxe hit!

[sparks]

Heres what we have come up with so far

GE plane setGE = Bf-109E-1, Bf-109E-4, Bf-110C-4, Ki-43 Oscar (sub for Macchi C.200 and Fiat G.50), Ju-87D, Ju-87G, He-111

GBHurricane IA, Hurricane IIB (SU version rather than 4 cannon IIC), Hurricane IID, Martlet I, Tomahawk IIB, Dauntless, Avenger, Li-2 (SU transport as a level bomber, no paratroops, sub for Wellington and Blenheim

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