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The RAF's French Foreign Legion - De Gaulle, the British and the Re-emergence of French Airpower 1940-45 (Hardcover, New)
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The RAF's French Foreign Legion - De Gaulle, the British and the Re-emergence of French Airpower 1940-45 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Military History
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This book examines and analyses the relationship between the RAF,
the Free French Movement and the French fighter pilots in WWII. A
highly significant subject, this has been ignored by academics on
both sides of the Channel. This ground-breaking study will fill a
significant gap in the historiography of the War. Bennett's
painstaking research has unearthed primary source material in both
Britain and France including Squadron records, diaries, oral
histories and memoirs. In the post-war period the idea of French
pilots serving with the RAF seemed anachronistic to both sides. For
the French nation the desire to draw a veil over the war years
helped to obscure many aspects of the past, and for the British the
idea of French pilots did not accord with the myths of the Few to
whom so much was owed. Those French pilots who served had to make
daring escapes. Classed as deserters they risked court martial and
execution if caught. They would play a vital role on D-Day and the
battle for control of the skies which followed.
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