The Reconnaissance Squadron 33 (33e Escadre de Reconnaissance) has flown practically every plane dedicated to that specialty for the last 75 years, one of its bravest mounts was the extraordinary P-38, in its F-5B reconnaissance version, received from the United States after the invasion of North Africa, these were the first French planes to return to the Homeland, flying photography missions from great heights before the invasion.
The Squadron's most famous pilot was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a writer and pilot who is now world famous for his extraordinary works, of which the best known is "The Little Prince," popular with children of this generation. He had formed his life of adventures, he was a pilot in the most difficult time, when the planes were nothing but glued wood and covered with cloth, he looked for new aeronautical routes, risking life on each flight, the marks of serious accidents had left his body wounded and broken, when the Luftwaffe launched over France in 1940, its place was in GC II / 33, flying Bloch MB 170, its missions were suicide flights, the Luftwaffe was superior in everything to the French, even so, it returned of each mission, until the end of France, the homeland had fallen, the invader owned Paris, after the war he traveled to the United States and Canada, where he wrote or finished 10 books, including The Little Prince.
His soul was not at peace, he re-enlisted in the Aviation of Free France, at 42 years of age his heart and his will were firm, but his body was not, he returned to combat, only thanks to the personal intervention of General Eisenhower, flew again in reconnaissance missions, the most demanding flight of the physical fortress that could be at that time, the planes flew to enormous heights, to avoid being seen or intercepted, in places where the cold is frightful, oxygen scarce and travel very long, but he could fly over his prisoner homeland and help in his future liberation, each flight was torture, his old fractures forked by the cold of the heights, his slow hands would not be defense against a fast hunt, and in any case, his The plane had no other weapons than the cameras.
And the end came, at dusk on July 31, 1944, his Lightning took off from Corsica, flying towards his beloved France, he was never seen again, he died in the sky that he had conquered by the Tricoleur, he died doing what else He loved to do, when his country needed him most, he left us a literary work that would last until our civilization is extinguished ...
The object of this entry is the F-5B Lightning that was flying the day of its disappearance, the model is by Lodela Revell, the painting is PRU Blue by Pinturas El Viejo Marino, the technique is flat brush, French national insignia by brush, codes by brush, this is a plane that had to be represented in my collection.
Author: Sergio Tellez
The Squadron's most famous pilot was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a writer and pilot who is now world famous for his extraordinary works, of which the best known is "The Little Prince," popular with children of this generation. He had formed his life of adventures, he was a pilot in the most difficult time, when the planes were nothing but glued wood and covered with cloth, he looked for new aeronautical routes, risking life on each flight, the marks of serious accidents had left his body wounded and broken, when the Luftwaffe launched over France in 1940, its place was in GC II / 33, flying Bloch MB 170, its missions were suicide flights, the Luftwaffe was superior in everything to the French, even so, it returned of each mission, until the end of France, the homeland had fallen, the invader owned Paris, after the war he traveled to the United States and Canada, where he wrote or finished 10 books, including The Little Prince.
His soul was not at peace, he re-enlisted in the Aviation of Free France, at 42 years of age his heart and his will were firm, but his body was not, he returned to combat, only thanks to the personal intervention of General Eisenhower, flew again in reconnaissance missions, the most demanding flight of the physical fortress that could be at that time, the planes flew to enormous heights, to avoid being seen or intercepted, in places where the cold is frightful, oxygen scarce and travel very long, but he could fly over his prisoner homeland and help in his future liberation, each flight was torture, his old fractures forked by the cold of the heights, his slow hands would not be defense against a fast hunt, and in any case, his The plane had no other weapons than the cameras.
And the end came, at dusk on July 31, 1944, his Lightning took off from Corsica, flying towards his beloved France, he was never seen again, he died in the sky that he had conquered by the Tricoleur, he died doing what else He loved to do, when his country needed him most, he left us a literary work that would last until our civilization is extinguished ...
The object of this entry is the F-5B Lightning that was flying the day of its disappearance, the model is by Lodela Revell, the painting is PRU Blue by Pinturas El Viejo Marino, the technique is flat brush, French national insignia by brush, codes by brush, this is a plane that had to be represented in my collection.
Author: Sergio Tellez
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