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Originally Posted by rof120
Stig:
Probably not for the number - here 34 - following / is the number of the escadre (wing) comprised of several groupes like I/34 or II/34. EB means Escadre de bombardement, GB Groupe…
The Lela book is much more recent than Martin's data (25 years or more) so possibly it contais more accurate details (?).
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Not sure I follow you here.
If you look at No 93 it was assigned to GB I/34 and since I am pretty convinced these two aircraft followed each other to GB 34 as well, I think also No 94 went to the same unit, but the remaining records only says GB 34 and not I/34.
I know nothing about the French Escadre/Wing system, but it makes little sense to me to assign an aircraft (unless a hack) to such a unit.
Since I don't have any French order of Battle for Sep 1939 it seems these Escadre were gone on 10 May 1940 since Jean Liron and Raymond Danel states the wings were called Groupement de Chasse, Bombardement etc followed by a number. For instance GB I/34 belonged to Groupement de Bombardement No 9. No mentioning of any wing with number 34.
Yes, the Lela Presse is much more recent, but that does not make it gospel just because of that. The only benefit of being more recent is that you may benefit from more/other documents located, fruitful teamwork/discussions/forums (like TOCH) but in the end you can still interpret things wrong....
It is not easy to be an aviation historian....
Cheers
Stig