French Aircraft that escaped to Britain from June 1940

[Alex Smart]

Hello Larry,

I did touch on this some time ago but the thread got muddled .

One Flight of Polish Pilots flew their French aircraft to Britain, this was as I understand it the ONLY French Air Unit to Escape to Britain. I was what was called a "Chimney Flight" which was commanded by Henneberg.
A photo of his Bloch MB152 serial number 656 is in the Mushroom book "Fighters over Franceand the Low Countries". It is shown in What looks to me like hastily applied British markings.
Others also flew to Britain, a Farman 222 and a Potez 540 landed at St. Eval on June 20th 1940 followed in July by "Several" Martin 167 bombers . Wonder what became of these ?
This is taken from "Action Stations 5".
There must have been many many others , some mentioned in the Air Britain RAF Serial Books . A few of those went from on from Britain to see service in the Middle East.

It would be good to have more details about these aircraft and those Airmen and their passengers who came to britain to fight on.

Alex