Re: Armee de l'Air ground losses May-June 1940
My source for the figures I provided is the daily loss report that was forwarded to the GHQ of the French air force. The last such report being on 9 June. There are ways to extrapolate losses until the armistice of course, but the ratio didn't change. So this is what is found in the French air force archives, and is also quoted in numerous books e.g. Facon's "l'Armée de l'Air dans la tourmente" (Economica, 1997, reprinted 2006), Buffotot "L'armée de l'Air dans la bataille de France, essai de bilan numérique d'une bataille aérienne", Revue Historique des Armées n°3, 1975 pp.88-117, etc.
They're really not controversial figures, anyone who's done some basic reading on the campaign will be aware of these.
I don't intend to do any work interpreting the figures you provided until I see a source for them. "Various books on French fighters" don't mean anything to me. The figures you mention list *all* losses including those before May 10th, training accidents etc.
I'd particularly like to see a breakdown of the "ground" numbers.
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