Do 17 / Do 217

Do 17 / Do 217

Origin: Germany
Total produced: 4,064
Total produced approximate: True
Notes: Do 17: 2,139 built in Germany (en, ru) and 70 in Yugoslavia (en). Do 217: 1,925 (en) or 1,905 (ru). The total adds the German figures after en; neither source splits the output by year. The service below is for aircraft whose sub-type the sources do not name: Do 17 over Poland, France, Britain, the Balkans and in Barbarossa, Do 17 glider tugs supplying the Kuban bridgehead in 1943 and landing troops on the Vercors in July 1944; Do 217 bombers over Britain and the North Sea from 1941, against the Normandy landings and the Oder bridges; Bulgarian, Croatian and Finnish Do 17; Italian Do 217 J night fighters.

Service

Germany · Eastern Front

≈ 1 Sep 1939 – Sep 1939

Germany · Western Europe

≈ 30 Oct 1939 – 7 Aug 1944

Germany · Balkans

6 Apr 1941 – 31 May 1941

Germany · Eastern Front

≈ 22 Jun 1941 – Mar 1942

Germany · Eastern Front

≈ 29 Jan 1943 – Oct 1943

Germany · Eastern Front

12 Apr 1945 – 12 Apr 1945

Bulgaria · Balkans

≈ May 1941 – 2 Dec 1944

Germany · Eastern Front

≈ Jul 1942 – Nov 1942

Croatia · Balkans

31 Dec 1944 – 15 Apr 1945

Finland · Scandinavia

≈ Jan 1942 – 4 Sep 1944

≈ Sep 1942 – 8 Sep 1943

Aircraft 10

≈ 1 Sep 1939 – Sep 1939≈ 10 May 1940 – Jun 1940

≈ 30 Oct 1939 – Jun 1940≈ 10 Apr 1940 – Jun 1940

≈ 10 May 1940 – Oct 1940

6 Apr 1941 – 17 Apr 1941

≈ Jul 1941 – Aug 194225 Aug 1943 – 27 Aug 1943≈ Sep 1943 – 29 Jan 1944

≈ Jul 1942 – Jun 1944

≈ Apr 1943 – Jun 1944

≈ 21 Jul 1943 – Jan 1944

≈ 23 Feb 1944 – 23 Feb 1944