French H-75A-4 aircraft

[Petitpoucet]

It seems that they mixed up the careers of the two n°82.

[Bronsky]

Si non e vero e bello...

[Modeldad]

Wing Guns

The A-1 had one in each wing

The A-4 / 751 had two in each wing.

The restored aircraft has only 1. Was this the result of conversion for training and then restoration, using only one gun beliveing it was an A-1?

Additional piuctures posted under "fair use" - source unknown.

[takata_1940]

S~
from what I can see when this aircraft was still flying after the war, he had none on the wings...
(picture published in the "Fana de l'aviation")

[Modeldad]

Thanks. Great picture.

[Modeldad]

Look what I found in my computer files!

Poor quality picture, but the upper surface could be a single color. Brown?

Comments? When? Where?

[Juha]

Hello
my quess is at Bourges

Juha

[Alex Smart]

Hello Oliver,

I am Red Faced .....must learn to count .

I checked what I have and it is -

AR630-634 - (5) Ex Norwegian
AR635-694 - (60)
AX799 - (1)
AX880-898 - (19)
BB918-923 - (6)
BB925-937 - (13)
BB974-979 - (6)
BJ434-453 - (20)
BJ531-550 - (20)
BK569-588 - (20)
BK876-879 - (4)
BL220-223 - (4)
BS730-738 - (9)
BS744-747 - (4)
BS784-798 - (15)
BT470-472 - (3)
HK823 - (1)
LA157-165 - (9) Ex Iran

Total = 219

my number is still not the same as yours,

Where do we differ ? in which serial block ? I cannot see it ?

Alex

[takata_1940]

Hello Alex,

BB924 (1) ? (not listed in Air Britain listing but listed in Air Britain Lend lease)

and...
HK823 is not from the French contract.
may be an ex-French, escaped from AOF (Sgt Milan)
delivered to FAFL.
AOF = Afrique Orientale Française
FAFL = Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres

In fact, my list is one wrong and yours without BB924 seems ok :
219 total
less 5 Norway
less 9 Persia
less 1 unknow
Total = 204 (which is the number found in British and French archives)

I still have to verify all this in PRO if I can find the individual file for each aircraft.

Regards,
Olivier Bacca.

[Alex Smart]

Hi Oliver,

I wondered about the BB924 , Have both books so yes in one not in other.

HK823 is noted as 71 OTU (so i think Egypt) collided with Tomahawk AN317 and crashed 13.12.41.

So that might not be one from the UK. Other types were forwarded to the Middle East from here so it just might be the one.

The number "10" is that 12807 - X809 or 13815 ?
I think that some that were Indian built were not given RAF serials but did see RAF or IAF service while others (only a few) were passed on to China.

Great photographs Steven has shown to us here. Thank you Steven

And Thank you Oliver for your help.

I wish that I could get to the PRO as easy as you guy's seem to be able to do all the time, there are lots of things that I would like to look into but apart from getting there there is the cost of the Hotel stay and PRO charges too. Ah well I dream on. I did at one time want to look at the POW's lists from Italy but the cost was over £100, that is without the postage to me. So I forgot that search.

Good night,
Alex