René Mouchotte
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Commandant René Mouchotte DFC was a World War II pilot of the French Air Force, who escaped from Vichy French–controlled Oran to join the Free French forces. Serving with RAF Fighter Command, he rose to command a fighter wing before being shot down and killed on 27 August 1943. His diaries were published in 1949 and later translated into English.
Hurricanes of 615 Squadron land at RAF Northolt in November 1940
Mouchotte's tomb at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Rue du Commandant-René-Mouchotte in Paris, 2011
Blockhaus d'Éperlecques
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The Blockhaus d'Éperlecques is a Second World War bunker, now part of a museum, near Saint-Omer in the northern Pas-de-Calais département of France, and only some 14.4 kilometers north-northwest from the more developed La Coupole V-2 launch facility, in the same general area.
View of the south side of the Blockhaus d'Éperlecques
Annotated aerial view of the Watten–Éperlecques area.
Construction works at the Watten site, as seen by an RAF ultra-low-level reconnaissance flight at an altitude of only 30 m (98 ft) on 23 July 1944
Aerial view of the bunker, 1944 or 1945