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Re: Gc I/2
GC I/2 was in France on 8 November 1942 and flew to North Africa as "reinforcement". It had on 10 Nov 1942 14 D520 at Setif and 8 at Bizerte (were Axis troops were allready IIRC, I wonder what happened to these ones).
It arrived at Meknès (Morocco) four days later and was planned to go to Great Britain to receive better aircrafts and then be engaged from there. It waited more than a full year.
On 5 December 1943 a CIC (Centre d'Instruction de Chasse = Fighter Training Center) was created in Meknès and received extra pilots and last remaining D520s of GC I/2 . This unit was now a planeless unit and boarded on the 30 December a ship for UK.
Source: AéroJournal n° 23 (the n° 5 has the short history of GC I/2 inside but I am unable of finding it in my mess. And I doubt there will be more about this period).
So the unit was not disbanded and that explains why the commanders remained the same. But it was definetly not operationnal, even if my sources don't say it it was used as a training unit or just waiting orders in a "comatose" status, as the Armée de l'Air was often lacking spares (especially for French-made aircraft) and gas.
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