File talk:Flickr - Israel Defense Forces - IDF Jeep Waving at French Bomber.jpg
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For bombing purpose, French air force only engaged jet fighters (including fighter bombers). An aircraft carrier ship from the French naval force was engaged too, and I'm unsure about if it could at this time still cary propeller bomber, but anyway the actual plane depicted here is almost certainly a scout plane. The french naval force used to be state of the art at this time, which implies jet planes, used as example for wild wessel missions as I found reference to.
A plane such as the one depicted just CANNOT be a bomber in French oversea deployment force by the standards of the mid-50's. It's design, for this era, absolutely tells, admiting it is French, that it is a Broussard-like plane used then, as examples, for scouting, air-ground infantry support help by reporting the effects of the actual fighter planes, things like this
- OK, after searching a bit more : no aircraft carrier ship was engaged by France. The wild wessel story I found reference to appears to be fictional after reading it a bit more. The plane depicted in the picture, also, due to more searches, has some aspects that shows it is older than scout plane produced at this time (like Broussard I mentionned) : double "haubannage" denote a 30's/40's era plane, I'd say. As well as, but at a lesser extend, the fact that there is a bar between the two legs of the fixed undercarriage. This kind of single-engine plane would not be have been used as a bomber by French forces at the epoch of the Musketeer operation.
- Complicated story. All I can do now is to go back on fr.wikipedia.org and restore the information I destroyed. I hope someone will take care of this, later.
- Thank you.
- Complicated story. All I can do now is to go back on fr.wikipedia.org and restore the information I destroyed. I hope someone will take care of this, later.
- The aircraft seen on this pic seems to be a member of the Piper Cub/Super Cub family, probably an L-18 or an L-21 (military designations of the Piper PA-11 and PA-18) rather than the older L-4 (Piper J-3) from WW2.
- The planes used by the French Navy from the aircraft-carriers Arromanches and Lafayette were late versions of the WW2 era F4U Corsair and Grumman TBF. The F4U-7 was used as a fighter-bomber during Operation Musketeer. Cfmarenostrum (talk) 13:33, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
