Gabriel Barbé of AC5 or 5AC

[Laurent Rizzotti]

According to the book "les victoires de l'aviation de chasse française volume 3 (5-24 juin 1940)", by Arnaud Gillet, on 17 June 1940 premier maitre Gabriel Barbé, a monitor in the fighter school that integrated three days later the AC5 squadron when it was created, led his section to intercept a German bomber over Saint-Nazaire. A report from the French Navy says he was probably destroyed, but no claim was apparently filled by Barbé, and 1 Sqn RAF was also involved possibly. Gillet identifies the German aircraft as a Ju 88 of 3./KG 30 that came back to base with a dead and two wounded aboard.