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| Tango01 | 25 Dec 2020 10:41 p.m. PST |
"The British had their Spitfire Mark I and II and the Germans had their Messerschmitt Bf.109E — designs that set the standard for high-performance fighters at the beginning of World War II. It's always been a small consolation to the French that they had just begun to field their own cutting-edge fighter, the Dewoitine D.520, when France fell. Between May and June 1940, the German Luftwaffe overwhelmed the French Armée de l'Aire. While many French pilots such as Antoine Saint-Exupéry — author of The Little Prince — went on to fight for the Allied cause, most French warplanes fell into the hands of the French Vichy regime…"
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