La Wekusta 2 Au Combat: 1940-1944 (Brest, Nantes, Mont-De-Marsan, Bordeaux)

Pierre Babin

La Wekusta 2 Au Combat: 1940-1944 (Brest, Nantes, Mont-De-Marsan, Bordeaux)
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Editions Heimdal
Country
France
Published
31 May 2016
Pages
200
ISBN
9782840484301

La Wekusta 2 Au Combat: 1940-1944 (Brest, Nantes, Mont-De-Marsan, Bordeaux)

Pierre Babin

The Wekusta 2 was a flying unit of the Luftwaffe used for weather reconnaissance, which historians have hitherto explored only marginally.

The history of Wekusta2, however, deserves more consideration. Few were, indeed, the Luftwaffe units that, during the Occupation, had permanently been based in France: the Wekusta2, whose aircrafts took off daily from Lanveoc Brest, Nantes-Chateau Bougon Mont de Marsan and Bordeaux-Merignac, is one of those.

Pierre Babin has therefore spent the last years working towards reconstructing the history the Wekusta 2. He explored the few available records, travelled to Germany and other Commonwealth countries to interview and collect the precious stories of veterans who served in the unit, and consulting the documents preserved by the airmen’s families. With this book - illustrated throughout with never-before-published photographs - Pierre Babin offers a unique and thorough account of the Wekusta 2.

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