And..

III. Flak-Korps

http://w1.183.telia.com/~u18313395/n...ghq/3flak.html

Mainly the corps was employed on the eastern half of the German front in Normandy, against the British units.

As has been emphasized above, the corps was mainly employed in the air defence role, not in the anti-tank role. This is also reflected in the claims by the corps during the Normandy battle:

Air Craft shot down
462

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And to see how things had gone previously:

In April and May 1944, the Allied air forces lost nearly 12,000 men and over 2,000 aircraft in operations which paved the way for D-Day.

http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/faq.htm

[ 30. May 2003, 03:25 PM: Message edited by: Kai-Petri ]

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