‘I had a Comrade…’

The Luftwaffe took a grievous toll in its air operations over Britain in terms of men and materiel, and from October 1939 through to March 1945 thousands of German airmen paid the ultimate price for their incursions over the British Isles.

The Cost


Put bluntly, those German airmen who were taken captive during operations over Britain were still a total loss to the Luftwaffe. To all intents and purposes, for the Luftwaffe at least, they may as well have been dead – at least, from an operational...

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