FRENCH PILOTS
SEVERAL REACH GIBRALTAR JOINING THE FREE FORCES LONDON, Oct. 7 (Received Oct. 8. at 9.30 p.m.) General de Gaulle’s headquarters issued the following communique;— “ Despite heavy odds, a large number of French pilots reached Gibraltar from North Africa to join us. Eight were shot down en route In Egypt and Abyssinia the roll of Frenchmen who died fighting for French independence lengthens every day Five pilots have already given their lives and to-day one of our planes was shot down with the loss of four or five members of the crew A number of pilots are already with the R.A.F. participating in the defence of Britain Important formations of bombers fighters have gone overseas and a great training effort justifies the hope that our squadrons will soon take a still more acPve part in the Allied cause ”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24424, 9 October 1940, Page 7
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139FRENCH PILOTS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24424, 9 October 1940, Page 7
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