The Beach Atlantic (“Scourge of the Atlantic”) – so christened “Fokke -Wulf” FW 200 “Condor Winston Churchill.
Created as a passenger airliner and became not only by the personal plane of Hitler and Goering, but also the “visiting card” of Luftanza on international airlines, with the outbreak of World War II, “Condor” was mobilized into military service, turning into an “air capper”, a distant bomber, a carrier of controlled missiles and an ocean intelligence officer, which entered the “wolf flocks “Dönitsa on the convictions of the allies.
It was the “condors” who caused a serious damage to the PQ-17 convoy and damaged the “Empress of Britain” liner, which was soon finished off (this was the largest ship sunk during the war years). But the FW 200 debut on the Eastern Front failed – the “condors” suffered significant losses near Stalingrad, and one was captured by our troops and studied at the Air Force Research Institute. Three more trophy “condores” were used by the polar aircraft of the USSR until the beginning of the 1950s.
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Author
Haruk Andrey Ivanovich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2015
Series
War and we. Aviation collection
Genre
Military equipment
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