ndicki
April 16th, 2009, 11:10
It is from No. 326 Sqn RAF, otherwise referred to as GC II/7 "Nice".
This squadron does not qualify, under the correct legal status, as "Free French", as it was part of the ex-Vichy Air Force which came on-side after November 1943. Only those units serving in Allied Forces before November 1943 are entitled to use the term "Free French" - by law! This belongs, quite simply, to the French Air Force. Well, sort of...
But it's pretty enough to see...
This squadron does not qualify, under the correct legal status, as "Free French", as it was part of the ex-Vichy Air Force which came on-side after November 1943. Only those units serving in Allied Forces before November 1943 are entitled to use the term "Free French" - by law! This belongs, quite simply, to the French Air Force. Well, sort of...
But it's pretty enough to see...