Operation Details

Fledermaus

'Fliedermaus' was a German small-scale air operation to bomb the British airfields used by Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse’s RAF Bomber Command (12 May 1941).

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The undertaking was intended to keep the British off balance as their aircraft started to take the air offensive to the Germans in occupied Europe at a time when Germany was shifting the focus of its military effort eastward in preparation for 'Barbarossa'.

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