3/II/1, 3e Escadrille 'Feuille de Houx' / 3de smaldeel 'Het Hulstblad' / 3rd Squadron 'Holly Leaf'  
                       
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                    3/II/1 was a reconnaissance squadron, equiped with Fairey Fox II's biplanes. It was attached to Army Corps II. On 10/05/1940 the unit had 12 aircraft.  
                     
                        
                     
                    Peacetime base: Goetsenhoven 
                    Wartime base: Glabeek  
                      
                     
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		                                      Sources 
		                                       
		                                      Aeropedia / Belgae Gallorum Fortissimi  
		                                      Alternate Views on Adolf Galland's WW2 Kills		                                       
		                                      Ancien Bulletins du CLHAM		                                       
		                                      Aircraft ued by the Belgian Armed Forces 
		                                      Aéronautique Militaire Belge - Order of Battle, 10th May 1940		                                       
		                                      Belgian Armed Forces, 1940		                                       
		                                      The Belgian Army at the outbreak of WW2 (doesn't state sources)
		                                       
		                                      Belgian Aviation History Association		                                       
		                                      Belgian Hawker Hurricanes controversy - 		                                      www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/ 
		                                      Belgian War Cemetery Willemstad (English)  
                                              Belgian War Graves (1914-1918; 1940-1945) 
                                              Belgian Women in Uniform 1940-1946 
                                              Biplane Fighter Aces - Belgium                                               
                                              The Campaign of the Belgian Army in May 1940                                               
                                              Chievres Air Base History                                               
                                              Dodenakkers.nl: Erehof Willemstad (in Dutch)                                               
                                              The Fiat CR.42 in the Belgian Air Force                                               
                                              France, 1940                                               
                                              The Gloster Gladiator in the Belgian Air Force                                               
                                              Rodolphe Count de Hemricourt de Grunne                                               
		                                  De Slag om de Grebbeberg (Dutch) 
		                                  Go2war2.nl: Fall Gelb (Dutch) 
		                                  Slagveld Sloedam		                                  (Dutch) 
		                                  The Stampe		                                   
                                          		                                   
		                                  War over Holland		                                  (English) 
		                                  Wings to Victory		                                  (Dutch) 
   				                           
   				                          Prisoners of War captured in Europe 1940   				                           
   				                          RAF - Campaign Diary - The Battle of France (May-June 1940)                                           
                                          RAF Museum: British Military Aviation in 1940 
                                          The Second World War - a day by day account                                           
                                          The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940, by Major L.F. Ellis, 1954                                        
                                           
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                                          Books 
                                            
                                          The Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgium The Official Account of What Happened 1939-1940 
                                          Brian Bond, France and Belgium, 1939-1940 
                                          Peter D. Cornwell, The Battle of France, Then and Now, 2008 
                                          Cynrik De Decker en Jean-Louis Roba, Mei 1940 boven België: de luchtstrijd tijdens de achttiendaagse veldtocht,                                           De Krijger, Erpe-Mere, 1993 
                                          Major L.F. Ellis, The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940, 1954  
                                          J.Fabribeckers, La Campage de L'armee Belge en 1940 
                                          Telford Taylor,                                           The March of conquest 
                                          Jean-Luc Wauthy and Florimond de Neve, Les Aéronefs de la Force Aérienne Belge (3e partie : 1920-1940),  Le Fana de l'Aviation magazine n.306, Mai 1995                                           
                                          General Wetzel,                                           Der Angrif der 255. Division über die Lys 
                                          Michael Wiesner, "Wer die macht hat, hat recht". De Belgische krijgsgevangenen in Duitsland en de Conventie van Genève, 1940-1945, 2005  
                                           
                                          Zoho Creator: Books Belgian Aviation                                           
                                               
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                                          Links 
                                           
                                          Avianet.nl (in Dutch)
                                           
                                          De Belgen in Engeland 1940-1945 (in Dutch)  
                                          Belgian Aviation History Association Archaeological Team  
                                                                                    Belgian Aviation History Association                                           
                                          Belgisch Nationaal Herdenkingscomité /                                           Comité National Belge du Souvenir 
                                          Bunkergordel.be: Bruggenhoofd Gent (in Dutch)
                                          - contains lists of Belgian and German casualties, Gent area, May 1940  
                                          Deaths in deportation                                           
                                          Gefusilleerden & gedeporteerden uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog / Les Fusillés et les déportés de la deuxième Guerre Mondiale, Belgium (in Dutch and French)  
                                           
                                          Discussion Groups 
                                          Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum 
                                          War over Holland Discussion Forum                                           
                                           
                                          Other  
                                           Abbreviations used in the Royal Air Force  
                                           Code Names & RAF Vocabulary 
                                            
                                           Air Aces                                           
                                           Airwar over Denmark  
                                           Allied World War II Casualties in the Netherlands  
                                           Australian Wargraves  
                                           Axis History Factbook                                           
                                           Battle-of-Britain.com  
                                           British Aircraft Directory                                           
                                           British Aviation Archaeological Council - Books and research links  
                                           Canada's Air Force History                                            
                                           HMS Cavalier                                           
                                           Ciel de Gloire (in French)
                                             RAF Squadrons  
                                             CWGC Cemeteries Germany                                           
                                             CWGC Cemeteries Netherlands  
                                             Czechoslovak airmen in 
                        the RAF 1940-1945  
                        Danish WW2 Pilots                        
                        Dutch Pilots in RAF Squadrons                                           
                        Eagles Squadrons (American pilots in the RAF)                                           
                        Foreign Aircraft Landings in Ireland 1939-1946                                           
                        Håkans aviation page (from Sweden, in English)                                            
                        An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, poem by W.B. Yeats 
                        Jagdgeschwader 27 (in German) 
                        Luchtoorlog ('Arial War', in Dutch, with many photos) 
                        Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth                       
                        The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945  
                        Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum  
                                              The National Ex-Prisoners of War Association  
                                              Naval History.net                                           
                                              Nordic Aviation during WW2                                           
                                              Pilotfriend.com: aircraft of WW2  
                                              Polish Air Force 1940-1947 Operations Record Books  
                                              RAF Battle of Britain 
                                              RAF Upwood 
                                              RAF WWII 38 Group Squadrons Reunited  
                                              Warbird Alley  
                                              War over Holland  
                                              World War II Aircraft wrecksites in Norway   
                                              www.bomber-command.de 
                                               
                                              The Aerodrome - 
                        Aces and Aircraft of World War 1 
                        WW1 Cemeteries  
                         
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                                          This page is dedicated to the Belgian airmen who lost their lives in May 1940. 
                                           
                                          With special thanks to Alain 
                                          Rosseels 
                                             
                    © Bart FM Droog / Rottend Staal Online 2008. Permission granted for use of the data gathered here for non commercial purposes, if this source is mentioned with a link to http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/belgium/af/index.html  
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