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No this is a Stuka (JU 87) Stig

This is a very early French Breguet in service with Aeronautique Militaire. Due to their (stupid, I can't put it any other way) habit of writing the digits 3 and 5 so they are almost impossible to differentiate, I don't know if this extremely interesting photo shows BR 34 or BR 54. Don't think these Breguets ever went to any front line units. Stig

The picture in the collection of Horace Balsley is obviously only a part of the picture. The full commercial postcard (carte postal) can be seen at i64.photobucket.com/albums/h179/Varese2002/Breguet616_001... On the original card it might be possible just to read (with a detail scan ?) the small lettering on the fuselage side (about the place of the pilot) which gives the exact Breguet type identification. IMO the fin shows BR 34 with underneath Charge maximal 275 (kg)

Nice find Kees Could be BR 34 but I am not betting my life on it... :-) Stig

Sometime ago I acquired an original copy of that postcard. The marking on the tail is without doubt BR34.

Hats off Kees! :-) Stig

Airmen from the 376th Bombardment Group atop an abandoned and derelict Luftwaffe Bf-109. The fighter was disabled by retreating Germans when the British Imperial forces recaptured Gambut airfield in the Libyan desert. The man at this photograph’s far right is 1st Lt. Navigator/Bombardier William O. (O’Brien) Mally. Mally, and perhaps the others in this picture, had been part of the Halverson Detachment. The Detachment was one of a couple of units created to bomb Japan after Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Before HALPRO, the detachment’s code name, deployed someone in Washington decided to depart from normal American practice which put both a navigator and a bombardier aboard heavy bombers. HALPRO navigators were hastily trained to bomb too.