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| Feb 9, 2024 at 10:35 | answer | added | Mark Scheffer | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 17, 2017 at 20:40 | vote | accept | Lars Bosteen | ||
| Dec 4, 2017 at 3:13 | answer | added | Jos | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 2:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/937140712533053441 | ||
| Dec 2, 2017 at 14:19 | answer | added | user13123 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 14:00 | comment | added | sempaiscuba | It had more to do with French attitudes to the chain of command at that time. Take a look at my answer to a question about a Churchill quote. It's probably worth reading the speech in full to see exactly what he was talking about. | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 13:10 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | @HorusKol. Yes, most were stationed outside England but "Initially at least, the Free French forces were drawn mostly from the French colonial empire, rather than from metropolitan France." (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_France#Composition) - the 'initially' bit is important here. So what happened to all those fighter pilots from metropolitan France? There were far more of them than there were Belgians, yet twice as many Belgians fought in the Battle of Britain. | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2017 at 10:26 | answer | added | Tom Au | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 10:16 | comment | added | user13123 | Also, the Free French did form their own Air Force, but the majority of their pilots were over in Africa and not England. | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 10:14 | comment | added | user13123 | It seems the French formed a bomber squadron in RAF command - since bombers weren't used in the BoB, they wouldn't be listed as part of that action. A handful of French fliers flew in a couple of RAF fighter squadrons. | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 9:43 | history | asked | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |