Belgian Gladiators suffered heavy losses to the Germans in 1940, with all 15 operational aircraft lost,[41][42] while only managing to damage two German aircraft.[43] During the preceding Phoney War, on 24 April 1940 Belgian Gladiators on neutrality patrol shot down a German Heinkel He 111 bomber which subsequently crashed in the Netherlands. The bomber, V4+DA of Kampfgeschwader 1, had been damaged by French fighters at Maubeuge, France, and chased across the Belgian border.[44]