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It's both a difficult and touchy issue.
The truth is that the French pilots got 5 officially confirmed victories.
According to eye-witnesses, the C-47s were shot up on the ground, while trying to taxi in the dry bed of the Oran Sebkra - with all men aboard!
That's the problem.
Had the French repelled the US and British landings, we should have known, but a few days later they were on the same side. You probably understand what I mean. No fuss no muss.

To Stephane, our job is not to judge the facts but to expose them. That's exactly what I did and the book was co-authored by Chris Shores, a non-French writer/historian above suspicion.