DESPITE HEAVY ODDS
MANY FRENCH AIRMEN REACH GIBRALTAR EIGHT SHOT DOWN EN ROUTE. NUMBERS ON ACTIVE SERVICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 7. 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 have died fighting for French independence daily lengthens. Five pilots have already given their lives and today one of our planes was shot down with the loss of four or five members of the crew. “A number of fighter pilots are already with the R.A.F. and participating in the defence of Britain. Important formations of bombers and fighters have gone overseas and a great training effort justifies the hope that our squadrons will soon take a still more active part in the Allied cause.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1940, Page 5
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