The 'Blue Squadrons': The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944

by Eduardo Manuel Gil Martinez and Juan Arraez Cerdá

This study recounts the experiences of the five squadrons sent to Russia between 1941 and 1944 to fight the Soviets.

When on 22 June 1941, the news reached Spain of the attack that the Third Reich had initiated against the Soviet Union, it was received with great satisfaction, since they had just come out of a civil war in which the Soviet Union's 'allies' had been defeated, putting an end to plans to impose communism on Spain with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1804512397
• ISBN13: 9781804512395
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 11.6"