The SAAF operated Junkers F.13FE, Ju-86Z/K-1 and Ju52/3M aircraft, all ex-South African Airways aircraft impressed into service, several captured Luftwaffe Ju-52’s were also used later in the war. There is no record of any blue on blue incident. Only one Ju-52 was lost to enemy action and that was ZS-AFD which was destroyed during an air attack at Jiggigga, 29th March 1942.
The eleven Ju52’s were allocated to No.51 Flt at Nairobi. They operated a shuttle service between Egypt, East Africa and South Africa. South Africa’s first blow against the enemy involved a Ju-86 which intercepted the German steamer “Watussi” which had made a run from the neutral port of Lourenco Marques heading for Rio de Janeiro.
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