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Re: 1940 Hurricane loss photograph - France
Other Saint Pols include:
Saint Pol-sur-Ternoise - roughly 60 miles south of Dunkirk and 20 miles west of Arras
Saint Pol-de-Leon - roughly 30 miles northeast of Brest
These may not be the only Saint Pols in France but they were the only ones GoogleMaps came up with. I think we can discount Saint Pol-de-Leon because it's well south of fighting that took place in May 1940 (Plymouth is the closest part of England to Saint Pol-de-Leon).
So we have a photo of a 605 Sqn Hurricane that force-landed on a beach, and an account of a 605 Sqn pilot who force-landed near "St.Pol" for which there are 2 options, one near Dunkirk and the second inland and further south. I still don't think we have a definitive answer...unless we can account for all other 605 Sqn losses during the period.
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