Polish Air Force had 1 plane Gotha in G III version and 4 copies of G IV. All planes were war trophies. There was only one G IV aircraft in combat, no. 213/17, which was renumbered to 100/17 after overhaul at £awica. It was delivered to 21 EN in April 1920. From the end of May till the beginning of August that year this machine, escorted by the Fokkers D VII of the 15th EM, was harassing the Bolshevik troops, destroying armoured trains, larger groups of troops and logistic bases of the enemy.
The first Gotha attack was made at dawn on 27 May 1920, at about 5 a.m. The target was the Malewannaja station, an easily identifiable facility that guaranteed to hit something important even with the scattered bombs.
The accompanying planes for the Gotha G IV were AEG C.IVs, but unfortunately, in my B.A.T., that plane would not fly higher than 370 meters.
That's why I used the AEG JII as the first (as some believe) Assault Plane.
All skin credits go back to their owners. Some of them I reworked to fit Polish Air Force of that time.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jkcv13kde1f24bf/Polish_Gotha_GIV.zip/file
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Topic: The war of 1920 (Read 3822 times)
