dewoitined338

Dewoitine D.338, F-LQBE

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• A30yoyo said:

  FAO Archivist SDASM....On the full-size scan does the marking under the RH wing read F-L? This aircraft has the Cross of Lorraine on the tail so attached to the Free French but I believe not captured from the Vichy French until after Operation Torch (end 1942). The Free French had used the markings 'FL- 'from 1942 but swiftly changed that to' FC-' but ' F-L' is new to me although the use of 3 letter suffixes like QBE was common. Are the dates Jack Canary was in N. Africa known?

• SDASM Archives said:

  A30yoyo It does appear to be F-L but if you email me at arenga@sdasm.org I can send you a large file, maybe you can tell better. Unfortunately, we do not know when he was in North Africa...

• A30yoyo said:

  There is another photo (archived very large) of 'QBE' at Hamburg (so plainly post-WWII )at freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tmi45/bernard%2... On this the RH underwing marks seem to be removed 'QBE' got around...it was recorded at Croydon (London) in the immediate post-war period, too