Sonderkommando Blaich
(Special Command Blaich) was a German unit consisting of s Heinkel He 111H medium bomber supported by an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 () transport aircraft and a Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun, Messerschmitt Bf 108 (). In January 1942 the Heinkel raided the Free French Forces, Free French–controlled Fort Lamy in the Colonial Chad, Chad region of French Equatorial Africa. The raid against a target from Axis bases in North Africa was a success but on its return flight the Heinkel ran out of fuel and had to make an emergency landing; the crew and aircraft were rescued a week later. Background Fort Lamy Chad and N'Djamena, Fort Lamy had been captured by the Free France, Free French in 1940 and was a staging post for the Capture of Kufra, operations against the Kufra oasis group. Blaich had been conducting operations from an airfield at Hun, Libya, Hun south of Tripoli in Libya and from Sabha, Libya, Sabha, south of Hun, against attacks by the British Special Air Service (SAS) ...
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