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Re: Help for Identification
Graham,
The squadron was not wiped out on the ground. It lost one aircraft and had three others badly damaged on operations on May 10, 1940. Two days later another aircraft was lost and two more slightly damaged during an attack on enemy columns. Then, on May 14, six aircraft were lost during a suicidal attack on bridges at Sedan, another machine returning damaged and later abandoned. Due to these losses, the unit played little further part in the western campaign until its final withdrawal to England on June 11.
Full details of all these losses in The Battle of France Then & Now due for publication in February 2008.
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