FRENCH FLYERS
NOT ENOUGH PLANES TRAINED PILOTS (Reed. May 27, 9 a.m.) .... LONDON, May 25. An agency correspondent who has been visiting a section of the French Air Force, praises the superhuman work it is carrying out; One group of flyers whom he visited had brought down 55 German planes since May 12, 1 themselves losing only four men killed 10 missing and 12 wounded. When four French machines attacked 22 Messerschmitts, they all returned safely having destroyed four of the enemy The French Air Force losses, the correspondent writes, have been small. To-day France has less planes than Germany, but she has more pilots than planes, and all have had five years of training. It is revealed in Paris that Germanplanes are being equipped with sirens and whistling bombs designed to terrify Allied troops and civilians. Nine Czechoslovak airmen fighting alongside the French shot down 1 1 German planes in one week.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 27 May 1940, Page 7
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