One for the Free French!

[ndicki 22]

These are from the first formally-constituted Free French squadron, No.340 'Ile de France' which formed in November 1941 in Scotland. For those who don't know, the term 'Free French' can be applied ONLY to those French nationals serving in Allied Forces before the 10th November 1942 when the Germans invaded the Unoccupied Zone of France. That means that these men were the hard-core fighters who did not accept the Armistice, and carried on the fight by whatever means they could find. And one of those means involved the RAF.

[Stratos 3,177]

And which plane they flew? From the Mg on the wings look like a Mk.I, but there are too many exhaust tubes to be a Mk.1

[ndicki 22]

It's the stock MkIX disguised, with an appropriate flight dynamics file to make it fly correctly for a MkI/MkII. So your observations are not wrong!

[ShrikeHawk 384]

Great work, Ndicki. You're including everybody from the original battle. I like it!

[ndicki 22]

I get the impression I'm doing every single aircraft, even! All those serial numbers correspond to the type, the squadron and the timeframe...