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French floatplane shot down January 1941??
Hi guys
A Fleet Air Arm pilot claimed a French floatplane shot down west of Sardinia sometime in January 1941. Unlikely?? Cheers Brian |
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Re: French floatplane shot down January 1941??
No such loss recorded in the French archives.
Chris |
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Re: French floatplane shot down January 1941??
Many thanks Chris
Cheers Brian |
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Re: French floatplane shot down January 1941??
Hello,
I was near to say ,it was perhaps the plane of Jean Chiappe, but not same date and he was in a civilian Dewoitine . Alain. |
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Re: French floatplane shot down January 1941??
No way!
This happened on 27 November 1940 and it was not a floatplane but a land-based Farman 223.4. |
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