Free French leather aviator jacket, North Africa

[2BM2K]

Free French leather aviator jacket in North Africa.

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[bseal]

Nice. Pardon me, where’s my free jacket though?

 

[Flightengineer]

Nice. Pardon me, where’s my free jacket though?

Same question

 

[John Lever]

Free French...as in not occupied by Germany....

 

[Flightengineer]

Free France?

 

[John Lever]

Sorry should have been clearer. French forces in unoccupied Europe during WW2. i.e. GB

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[flyincowboy]

The "Forces Française libres " The ones who will not cope with the VICHY GOVERNEMENT and the NAZIS.After JUNE 18TH 1940 and the" General de Gaulle "famous speech on the BBC a lot of people joined the army in inoccupied territory to fight for freedom ...Most were abroad in different territory part of the French colonies .... Some were in FRANCE fighting with the maquis/ resistance . .

 

[CombatWombat]

Free French leather aviator jacket in North Africa.

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That looks like a bloody Italian policeman's coat!
(Hard to tell if it is though......the Italians copied the French with tanker helmets and coats too)