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That was the STO (Compusory Work Service). This was organized by the german with the zealous coopoeration of Vichy : all french boys between 18 and 23 had to go ,to Germany for work. Their condition there varied but sometimes, they were not much better treated than concentration camps priosnners. The STO was massivly refused by the French, and lot of young boys entrered the resistance ("maquisards"). The repression was sometimes hard with the family deported to Germany. And indeed, despite the "compulsory" in the name, those poor guys were somewhat treated as traitors at the end of the war.

All french children who played war in those bunkers agree All fathers who looked for their boys playing in the bunkers disagree They are often the same with 20 years of difference.

sorry JonathanRL, I find the current one much better

Hurry up wrench, I want to start a Pakistani Sabre campaign

The german POW held by the french were in a difficult situation for many reasons. The country was devastated and dizorganized so that it was very difficult to feed the french population, so imagine about the "ennemies" !!! Vengeance Lot of bad decisions : For instance the command of a PoW was left to a french colonel who was a real hero of the resistance; He treated them well according to his knowledges of prisonners treatment, the only problem is that his knowledge came from his exeprience in a German concentration camp and when he was freed he was weighting something like 35 kg !

It must be commented that the same kind of stereotypes applied to french metropolitan, with deadly consequences : In 1914, the offensive on Metz was a terrible defeat for the French, and scapegoats had to be found. "Of course", the french high command was very good and did a great job as they have always done since Napoleon (especially in 1870), and they would always do in the future (especially in 1940) One regiment involved was from Lorraine with lot of solidiers who had fled occupied Lorraine, so they could not be responsible for the defeat. The other regiment was from southern France, and southern french are very well known for their lazyness (southern indolence) so they they were held responsible and several soldiers from those regiments were shot. But to answer Dutch_P47_M, there was a difference between the metropolitan and the colonized people, is that through education they had a real hope of accessing some better positions such as teachers. Basically a small part of "giifted" young boys (and girls to a lesser extent) could access a better social rank through situation. For the colonized people, this was nearly impossible with very very few exceptions. I am talking about France because I know the situation but it may be the same in other European countries.

Ok, it was a misunderstanding

Do you mean you don't have alot of info for the Vautour ?

Great I had a lot of difficulties to find pictures of the Ouragan Cockpit I mostly saw dark blue ones. I will try to ask people about jet black. For the Vautour, we have much more info

Great, I love the 70's

Yom Kippur war is over, and my Skyhawk squadron did a great job :

Sometimes, the fuel capacity is a little limited :

Looks great ! What will be the epriod for the campaigns ?

Tank you Erik If I check my internet cache, lot of it is about combatace :)

Hello I have some interest in WP orders of battle and I started a discussion on acig : http://www.acig.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6947 you have to subscribe, but it is free (though you can give me your credit card number if you insist) Some links : For a correct order of battle of the Romanian AF in 1989, see: http://www.acig.info/CMS/index.php?opti ... &Itemid=47 http://www.easternorbat.com/

What about Capunian Viggen taking off from a hidden base ? keep up your excellent work in the direction you want anyway

Nice surprise from Stary Thank you I hope we will have the same for the Vautour and the Ouragan And at least for the Ouragan, I think I will update when possible ordway's cockpit with your high res textures

Why not adding a Capun Island (alignment = ENNEMY) ?

http://combatace.com/forum/268-thirdwire-strike-fighters-2-series-knowledge-base/ http://combatace.com/forum/99-thirdwire-strike-fighters-1-series-knowledge-base/ (most advice also apply to sf2)

Despite being a heavily arrogant chauvinistic french, I am not very proud of my ancester's attitude toward the black. Is it worse or better than what happened in the US ? it is up to everyone to decide, anyway, it's bad But it must be said that at the same time (late 10's 20's 30's), french black were better accepted than afro-amricans" in the US

Bullard is fairly well known and somewhat respected as a figure of that time.Most people describing the artist parisian life of that time (Hemingway, Montparnasse ...) talk about him. The french said they were less rascist than the US because they accepted black american (especially Jazz musicians) without segreggation. They only forgot to talk about all the african they exploited and sent to death at the same time ...