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Originally Posted by GuerraCivil

Another interesting record is the "5 in 1" achievement by the famous Pierre Le Gloan. On 15.6.1940 he during a single sortie shot down 4 Italian CR 42´s and one Fiat BR 20.

Is the above true or legend? Do Italian sources confirm it?

Hello,

There is some misunderstanding, i think. Le Gloan never shot down 5 italian plane but obtained 5 air victories from french homologation system. This is different!
It makes 2 shared victories with Assolant-Bernache, 2 indivdual for other later Fiats CR-42, 1 indivudual for the BR-20.

It makes 4 planes destroyed, for 7 homologated air-victories for the french pilots, 4 of them shared.

Fully corroborated by italan archives.

Regards