OT: French airmen honoured at a ceremony in Paris

[BeauBrummie]

The families of two French airmen have received their posthumous medals more than 70 years after the Battle of Britain thanks in part to the Yorkshire Air Museum in York. Now that's what I call Entente Cordiale!


http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9851816.War_heroes_honoured_in_Paris/

 

[gecko]

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.

 

[Pat Pattle]

Interesting article, thanks Jeff.

 

[Led Zeppelin]

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.

 

[Cuttles]

Glad he took notes like Closterman. Must be good.

 

[Cuttles]

Ps: Very decent of York Directors, Leeming and Reid to put the work in.