Talk:Free French Air Forces

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Official Info[edit]

french defense ministry: squadron 328 "provence" and squadron 340 "ile de france". othe fighter group infos can be found here Cliché Online (talk) 05:41, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

offcial site of the order of liberation alsa has infos here. Cliché Online (talk) 06:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW i've found the "GW" code is used by the GC Ile de France Spitfire. Cliché Online (talk) 06:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

found more official infos w/cool pics (1940-1960) here and there. (plus that) Cliché Online (talk) 07:01, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fighting for Free France[edit]

"From a strength of 500 on July 1940, the ranks of the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres (FAFL) grewn to 900 by 1941, including 200 flyers. A total of 276 of these flyers were stationed in England, and 604 were stationed in overseas theaters of operation." i don't understand the numbers here, especially "including 200 flyers". Is it supposed to say "pilots" for flyers in the first part, and "airmen" or "members" in the second? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.145.251.34 (talk) 20:52, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Disparity of the English article name versus its lede grammar[edit]

The article's lede sentence:

"The Free French Air Force (French: Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres, FAFL) were the air arm of Free French Forces during the Second World War."

....is grammatically incorrect related to the article's English title, which takes a singular construction, as opposed to the plural French construction of the air force's name.

Our two choices to correct this situation are to either revise 'were' to 'was', or to more accurately revise the English article's title to 'Free French Air Forces' (plural case).

The latter choice appears to be more desirable to this editor. Comments? HarryZilber (talk) 14:46, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Curious as to why it would be plural? Was there more than one organization, or did it exist at more than one time?NiD.29 (talk) 21:45, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]