frigidmagi - Indeed. Welcome and thanks for commenting!
KLorberau - Thank you! Well Heilmann is under orders to try to break out on foot to German lines if not reached soon.
dublish (1) - Yes, this is certainly a setback. Interesting thoughts about Eddi. He's innocent, but I think in a somehow worldly way. Going by pure war story tropes, people like that usually end up either wind up with a bullet through the head or blown up, but of course you know how I try to discourage meta-thinking
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trekaddict (1) - Heh.
dublish (2) - If a position opens up at the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, I'll let you know
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dublish (3), trekaddict (3) - Oh, the repartee!
Kurt_Steiner - Gladiator development has been sidelined in favor of monoplane designs. The Hawker Hurricane, as it happens, is scheduled to be delivered to squadrons in spring or summer of 1937.
dublish (4) - The planes in III:XX are actually Vildebeests. Less than 150 fighters means less than 150 in J.M. Steel's ADGB. As Baldwin assured parliament, more planes from throughout the Empire are being sent to the Home Islands. Also, 150 only counts aircraft considered useful in a defensive role. At the start of the Netherlands Campaign, Britain has deployed some of these planes that were just then being transferred. The Vildebeests, for example, come from the newly-reactivated No.42 Squadron from Scotland. Ihlefeld is indeed languishing - the British have made much about capturing Germany's first and initially most prominent ace.
Enewald - They're trying to!
TheExecuter - Thank you kindly! The riverboat is actually 1880s vintage, but yes. Of course, it would have looked more like the vessel shown in the foreground of the bridge picture than a classical American riverboat from the Mississippi. The Netherlands armed these hastily as part of their Southern Defense - to protect a frontier they never expected to defend.