Halberstadt CL.II - Foreign users

We start with a new airplane and with an entry shorter than usual.

The Halberstadt CL.II was a German escort fighter/ground attack airplane designed during the first World War that excelled during that conflict.

As we are centering in the foreign users of this airplane, and they were rather... scarce, only two non-German nations employed it after the war. Lithuania and Poland.


Under Lithuanian command, they were among the very first (if no the first) attack airplanes that equipped their air force. They may have seen some action at any of the Lithuanian independence wars (1918-1920).

Under Polish command, they saw action specially in the Polish-Soviet war where they served in at least two squadrons, the 2nd squadron and the 14th, both dedicated to the ground support role, where this airplane excelled.