Which Famous German Ace Was Shot Down in the First WW2 Combat For the French Air Force?

Please do an episode on the Battle of Barking Creek.

Once again - Top notch production, presentation & history preservation. I particularly enjoy your calm, undramatic, naration technique.
Thank you for the many in depth and even handed presentations!

There is also Pomier-Layrargues shooting down Werner Moelders near Beauvais, June 5, 1940. A tragic victory, as the french pilot was shot down in flames a few minutes later.

Amazing to see the Hawk! I would love to see you do a video featuring Vichy Hawks vs USN Wildcats during Torch or even more obscure Thai flown Hawks vs French & later the US.

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One of my uncle was called Robert Battut and has been shot down in 1940, he was flying on Dewoitine 520 or Morane 406, i don't know. May be could you find some informations about him. Thanks.

It is odd that the Hawk 75 looks "so French".

Thanks for battle of France topic. Wish it will be continued!

The Popular Front sabotaged the French defense, history is repeating now.

Nobody even skilled can be 100% safe, a lot of top record german pilot were downed and survived to return to fight...

Highly interested 👍

Is it true that the German losses on the first day of the battle on the western front on May 10, 1940 were about 250 planes, which were the German losses in the entire Polish campaign?

Mölders was finally shot down by sous-lieutenant Pommier-Leyrargues (aged 19, in his first and last combat) on a Dewoitine 520. WM was made prisoner.

Very good vid. The Hawk was a good match for the 109D, the earlier jumo engined model. In November 21 109D's jumped 9 Hawks, the French pilots shot down 4 Germans and 4 others force or crash landed. One Hawk force landed. When well flown the Curtiss 75 could be quite dangerous.

The phony war did have ground movement and action. There were about 2700 total casualties during the Saar offensive, which had just started the day before this action took place.

the French bought the Dutch Koolhoven F.K.58

How courageous a victory to have pursuited an unarmed plane !

France even bought combat aircraft from the Dutch.

Excellent
French fighters were hindered by their poor 3-ships tactics, but German pilots were not as ready in late 1939 as they will be in spring 40, unfortunately…
Yes as a French viewer, I’m very interested by any videos involving French air forces

The military leadership was forced into that ‘mindset’ in great part because ppl then were swept by the blind promises of peace on the continent, after the trauma of WWI. Even Chamberlain went to great length to appease Hitler for the exact reasons. I am not a warmonger, however frame your ideas properly.

Very interested in more of this!

why D version Edit: talking about JG 53 sequence? except that, awesome

Really nice video, especially considering the scarce information on this specific period ow WWII. Eager to see more details on the topic from you.

That was very interesting and well made, thank you ! Werner Mölders was shot down a second time by French Air Force D.520s and made POW during the batlle of France some month later.

Oui Monsieur Sowtime 112,des épisodes sur la bataille de France sont les bienvenus 😊.
Un ami de France qui apprécie vos vidéos.

Werner mölders was a good fighter pilot or not i dont know it's uncertain.He was shot down 2 times battle of france(may 1940),also nearly shot down battle of britain(28 july 1940).His one of wingmans (richard leppla) saved his life that day.He saved his life by shooting the spitfire behind him.thanks to this video, I learn that Mölders was shot once again.

Thank you @Showtime112, the air battle of France is fascinating and was, in some ways, a rare early success for the Allies. While the Luftwaffe was victorious, it suffered enough losses and lost time to make its job over Britain that much more difficult.

Superb video, Showtime. 🥰
And if you really plan on covering more action that occured during the Phoney War, I think the famous "9 vs 27" dogfight that took place on 1939, november 6th will be mandatory. 😉

Na H 75 létalo i Československé letecké eso v bitvě o Francii František Peřina ..Dokonce si byl nucen jeden Hawk 75 ,,přivlastnit" a přeletět s ním moře po kapitulaci Francie

I've studied the Battle of France in 1940 and one little known fact is that the professional French military actually was quite successful against the Germans. The problem was lack of successful doctrine and constant political in fighting amongst the French command structure.

Very good looks like those curtis Hawks could dance the boogie woogie, slower and less of a climber/ diver than the bf 109 but the hawk could do the two step and all the other steps combined to avoid the hot pointy stuff! 😂🤪👍

Molders +->

I have long loved the Curtiss Hawk - it's the forgotten fighter plane of WWII. It's great to see this clip - more please.

Are there some notable ms.406 vs bf109 fight ?
I heard a french veteran talking about an engagement betwen a d520 and a formation of german bomber and their escort.
Apparently the d520 could both roll and dive faster than the bf-109

Is this Cliffs of Dover footage?

Excellent work, as usual!

I’m very glad to see finally some videos showing the airfight during the campaign of France in 1940 ! My grandfather was a bomber pilot in 1940 when France surrendered in June 1940 he quickly joined the free French forces and in North Africa served again as a bomber pilot in 1941 until 1945.
I still have his photos album from this period.

Could be great to hear more about the “Normandie Niemen” it’s an impressive story to tell too.

Great video!!!

This video made me finally start building my Hawk 75 1/48 model kit 😁
Great video as usual!

Great reconstruction! I believe Mölders should have landed with the landing gear retracted.

Hola. Sí por favor más reportajes de este tipo.
Gracias

Great videos!

Definitely, this is pretty much forgotten.

Werner Molders wS shot down by a French Hawk 75.

Thank you for reminding everybody that the Phoney War goes beyond the Battle of Rio de la Plata and the Norway campaign ;-)

Information on the air war over France 1940 is hard to come by , please do more !

The least documented chapter of WW2 is the action of the Armee de L' Air action in 1940. The Luftwaffe lost 740 aircraft in the invasion and more than 140 experienced pilots. Göring was devastated and hid it from Hitler. Lots of Luftwaffe pilots mentioned it in personal memoirs. The reason the battle of Britain failed for Hitler is the blow the Luftwaffe got in the battle of France. Many French pilots went to the Soviet union later and flew in the Red Air force. The cold war later with the West prevented their stories to be told. Recently some families of these pilots were honoured by Russia.

This is going to F**** rule !!