[Petitpoucet]

Hi every body,

Many sentences i read today are really interesting.
Juha first, when he compared motivation of the Polish and Czech pilots with French ones... I think you're right.

France wanted the peace and was not prepared to the war, especially the civil population. In the army, it was not the same. They were professionnal and there were also really great french pilots, with the same motivation. It cannot be a generality, this is just why i'm not agree with you.

As i said to you, GC III/2 was not the best example of a french flying unit. Motivation was one of the lacks of the squadron leaders, so i'm not really surprised. I also read the war diary of another "young pilot" (a sub-officer, René Pizon), and i saw approximately the same things.
But as you said, this is one hand. I another hand, i can speak hours about the GC I/5. Accart, Dorance, Marin-La-Meslée, Vasatko, Perina, Morel .....
To answer to David's question, i think that Marin-la-Meslée was the pilot with higher number of war missions.
I also liked what you said about lack of discipline, to conclude that Fejfar was killed when he deliberately leaved his squadron ...
But how Polish and Czech pilots would have not been critical against a country that lost the war ?

June 3rd 1940 : Arnaud Gillet made a huge work, and be sure that there were no Dornier 17s detached to ground units !
Adj Benausse, A/C Balmer and Sgt Karubin attacked a flight of Do 17s from I./KG 76 near Ham (Somme). They claimed one sure each, but there were just three Dorniers ... damaged. No one seems to have been confirmed.

Lionel