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its ability to out-fly the Luftwaffes best

Despite several determined attacks by a Ju88 nightfighter

September 1940 and they came in their hundreds

This culminated in heavy casualties and a retreat back towards the Rhine and onto the Battle of Hanau

a low flying RAF Douglas Boston of 88 Squadron defies hostile fire to lay a protective smoke screen over the first wave of British troops approaching the invasion beaches

Desert Sharks and Eagles by Nicolas Trudgian. NRG46 its ability to out-fly theNT0315. Desert Sharks and Eagles by Nicolas Trudgian. The air war fought in the skies above the inhospitable wastelands of the North African desert were among the most hotly contested of the war. The outcome of the bitter land war raging below largely depended upon who controlled the air space above, and both sides knew it. JG 27, having cut its teeth in the battles of France and Britain, was the first Luftwaffe unit to arrive in North Africa.