THE ALLIED AIR FORCES IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - General Jean-Achille-Henri Mendigal, the C-in-C of the French Air Force in North Africa, and Major-General Carl Spaatz, the Commander of the US Eighth Air Force, passing down the line of the handed over fighter aircraft. The rebirth of the French-American comradeship in arms was symbolised officially by presentation of thirteen P40 Curtiss warhawk planes to the French Lafayette Escadrille who were successors of the famous Lafayette Squadron fromed by the American volunteers in France during the First World War. Maison Blan
THE ALLIED AIR FORCES IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - General Jean-Achille-Henri Mendigal, the C-in-C of the French Air Force in North Africa, and Major-General Carl Spaatz, the Commander of the US Eighth Air Force, passing down the line of the handed over fighter aircraft. The rebirth of the French-American comradeship in arms was symbolised officially by presentation of thirteen P40 Curtiss warhawk planes to the French Lafayette Escadrille who were successors of the famous Lafayette Squadron fromed by the American volunteers in France during the First World War. Maison Blanche, 9 January 1943 Us Air Force, French Air Force, Spaatz, Carl Andrew, Mendigal, Jean-Achille-Henri
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