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Desert plane crash
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Posted: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 09:09 PM UTC
Read about the Free French Blenheim lost in the desert in the book on the Leclerc column. A bit of Googling turned up this French language site with some evocative pictures.

Blenheim T1867

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Posted: Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 02:07 AM UTC
Dave-- interesting photos. My French is weak. Did they recover the aircraft?
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Posted: Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 02:15 PM UTC

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Dave-- interesting photos. My French is weak. Did they recover the aircraft?
DJ


Hi DJ nice to have you back

No the aircraft was burnt to prevent it from attracting further attention from overflying aircraft.

Final chapter

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Posted: Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 06:05 PM UTC

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Dave-- interesting photos. My French is weak. Did they recover the aircraft?
DJ


Hi DJ nice to have you back

No the aircraft was burnt to prevent it from attracting further attention from overflying aircraft.

Final chapter

David


David - - I guess "Et voici ce qu'il en reste." says it all!
thanks, very interesting. I trust we can get the History Forum fired back up again and get folks discussing their views. I always found it a challenge to engage other on this forum.
DJ
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