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OT: French airmen honoured at a ceremony in Paris

The article mentions Lafont as the last survivor of the Battle of Britain? Surely they mean the last French survivor? Glad to see these men getting recognized as the should, pity it came so late.
 
Thanks for the information. They were both heros, part of the very first men who joined English territories to continue the fight. They arrived at Gibraltar from North Africa on june 30th 1940, only 8 days after the armistice.

Mouchotte died in 1943, shot down in his Spitfire while leading his squadron for a B17 escort over France. He used to take notes of everything and they were published after the war. I've read this book a couple of years ago, it's poignant.

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