French Jug

[Greebo]

Frenchy requested I skin this this French P-47D.

This aircraft was part of GC II/5 "La Fayette" of the Free French Air Force. This squadron was very active during the Battle of France, claiming 47 kills while flying Curtiss Hawks. Then as part of the Vichy French Air Force it fought against the Allies during Operation Torch while flying D.520s.

In late 1942 it was reformed as part of the Free French Air Force and fought in North Africa with ex-USAAF P-40s. In 1944 it was reequipped with P-47Ds and used primarily to support Free French troops in their advance through France and Germany.

[Coalcat1]

 

[Dragon Tamer]

 

[XxDaSTaRxx]

It's French, does it run?


Nice job on the skin though 

[lyric1]

 

[SFRT - Frenchy]

And I don't regret it. She's a beauty thank you Greebo. 

[SmokinLoon]

It's French, does it run?


Nice job on the skin though 

Respectfully..... your comment is as asinine as the fallacy of the misconception of what actually happened to the French in WWII. I suggest you and others like you research a bit and understand the actual events or else you will continue to make fools of yourselves.

As for the skin.... very nice.  

[XxDaSTaRxx]

Respectfully..... your comment is as asinine as the fallacy of the misconception of what actually happened to the French in WWII. I suggest you and others like you research a bit and understand the actual events or else you will continue to make fools of yourselves.

As for the skin.... very nice.  

[Someguy63]

 

[SFRT - Frenchy]

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You obviously didn't read it.

[Saxman]

Oh come on, what is it with all the false advertising in threads lately. I saw French Jug and came in expecting this:



Seriously, people!

In all seriousness, another awesome job, Greebo!

Now how about skinning the one in my pic?

[Widewing]

Frenchy requested I skin this this French P-47D.

This aircraft was part of GC II/5 "La Fayette" of the Free French Air Force. This squadron was very active during the Battle of France, claiming 47 kills while flying Curtiss Hawks. Then as part of the Vichy French Air Force it fought against the Allies during Operation Torch while flying D.520s.

In late 1942 it was reformed as part of the Free French Air Force and fought in North Africa with ex-USAAF P-40s. In 1944 it was reequipped with P-47Ds and used primarily to support Free French troops in their advance through France and Germany.

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[Greebo]

Thanks for the kind words guys.

Well if it was a Hurricane it would be false advertising....as it is I just consider it advertising.  

I think someone has chipped in with a French cowardice quip on every French skin I have done. However the French army's Maginot line philosophy in WW2 was a direct result of their WW1 experience, where suicidally brave massed frontal infantry charges were repeatedly mowed down by machine guns and artillery. The German army's Blitzkrieg tactics came as a nasty shock not just to the French and British in 1940 but just about every army in the world. The French made a lot of mistakes in 1940 that contributed to the loss of France but if you had put the American army up against the Wehrmacht in 1940 the result would not have been much different.

In the case of the pilots who joined Free French Air Force following the fall of France, they were given the option of not fighting on but chose to do so. If captured they faced the prospect of being tried as traitors by the Vichy French government. So I think they deserve more respect than they are given from some quarters.

[Devil 505]

In the case of the pilots who joined Free French Air Force following the fall of France, they were given the option of not fighting on but chose to do so. If captured they faced the prospect of being tried as traitors by the Vichy French government. So I think they deserve more respect than they are given from some quarters.

Well put, Greebo.

And excellent job on the skin.

[Karnak]

Not a single French unit broke and ran in WWII.  The same cannot be said about American units.

The reason SmokinLoon and others respond is because the accusation of cowardness is brought up, as "a joke" of course, everytime the French are significantly part of a discussion.  It isn't funny anymore because we've all heard it hundreds or thousands of times.

So no, it isn't about a sense of humor, it is about hearing the same misinformed quips, defensively passed off as a joke when called on it, over and over and over and over and over and over....

I don't believe people when they say it was a joke because most people I have talked about this with do believe that the joke is based on reality, that the French did lose because of cowardness, not because they were out manuevered and out thought strategically and tactically.