[keith A]

This is a very long discussion but I am not sure where it leaves us. The French claims/awards of aerial victories are confusing but this seems to have bled into a very verbose justification of French claims to the detriment of the RAF and others. In truth the Hurricane was a much better fighter than all but the Dewoitine D520 and therefore it seems certain that the RAF claims were a substantial part of Luftwaffe losses in the Battle of France. Credits to French pilots are difficult to compute because of the official attitude to these credits. In the end French pilots fought well but their fighters were very poor and were barely able to compete with even the poorest of the Luftwaffe designs.