„Lietajúce oko“ Wehrmachtu v službách slovenského letectva

Wehrmacht’s “Flying Eye” in the Services of the Slovak Air Force”

Autor: ŠUMICHRAST Peter

ŠUMICHRAST, Peter: „Lietajúce oko“ Wehrmachtu v službách slovenského letectva

ŠUMICHRAST, Peter: Wehrmacht’s “Flying Eye” in the Services of the Slovak Air Force”.

Vojenská história, 20, 3, 2016, pp. 127-146.

In the introduction of the published material, the author states that the Slovak Air force, since its origin in March 1939 until its factual end in September 1944 when it lost all the aircrafts with combat value, had been fi ghting with the issue of morally obsolete aircraft fl eet. The efforts of its representatives to modernize the Slovak Air Force fl eet by purchasing the modern military aircrafts came across negative opinions of the German Air Force Command in almost all attempts. An exception in this effort to modernize the Slovak Air Force was the purchase of modern German twinengined spotter planes, Focke Wulf Fw 189 A-2, the Squadron 1. was armed with since December 1943. Based on the yet unpublished archival documents deposited in the Military Historical Archive Bratislava, the author introduces the topic of purchase and use of this Wehrmacht’s „Flying Eye“ which were popular among pilots in the Slovak Air Force.

Keyword: Military History. Slovakia. World War 2. Slovak Air Force in the Services of Wehrmacht.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.69809/vojhist.2016.20.3.7

Ročník: 20 | Číslo: 3/2016 | Stránky: 127-146