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French top air victory records of 1940?
I came along an interesting claim of French ace Robert Williame. On 8.6.1940 he and his comrades of GC/I flying Morane 406 had a intense engagement with Bf 109´s near Beauvais. According to French combat report Williame shot down 3 Bf 109 in 15 seconds. His victims are mentioned to be Bf 109 E-3´s belonging to 2./JG 26, 3./JG 26 and 7./JG 3
Is the above true or legend? What German sources say? Another interesting record is the "5 in 1" achievement by the famous Pierre Le Gloan. On 15.6.1940 he during a single sortie shot down 4 Italian CR 42´s and one Fiat BR 20. Is the above true or legend? Do Italian sources confirm it? |
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Re: French top air victory records of 1940?
Hi, in the Beavais area the German involved units reported losses are:
7./JG 3 fw Franz Albert BF109 E-3 KIA time around 16,30 probably by Williame 2./JG 26 lt Walter Riemer BF109 E-3 KIA 3./JG 26 fw Alfred Burkhardt BF109 E-3 KG later returned I/JG 26 losses are related to an early combat in the morning with GC II/5 Le Gloan's claims are very accurate the 83. squadriglia lost 2 CR42 with 1 pilot killed (Colombo) e 1 captured (Parmiggiani), 85 squadriglia 1 CR42 pilot captured (Filippi), other aircraft were damaged but repairable. The Br20 shot down by LeGloan was an aircraft from the 172. squadriglia regards Alessandro |
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Re: French top air victory records of 1940?
Hello,
More info on Le Gloan's claims on my site at: http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/italy_graffer.htm Best Christmas wishes/Håkan
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Re: French top air victory records of 1940?
Thanks for info!
Regards and happy New Year, GC |
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Re: French top air victory records of 1940?
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There is some misunderstanding, i think. Le Gloan never shot down 5 italian plane but obtained 5 air victories from french homologation system. This is different! It makes 2 shared victories with Assolant-Bernache, 2 indivdual for other later Fiats CR-42, 1 indivudual for the BR-20. It makes 4 planes destroyed, for 7 homologated air-victories for the french pilots, 4 of them shared. Fully corroborated by italan archives. Regards |
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Re: French top air victory records of 1940?
hi,
more info of Le Gloan here: http://www.bibert.fr/Joseph_Bibert_f...LE%20GLOAN.htm check carefully, great info in French...... regards
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