De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile

Title screenshot.

TV documentary (2012)

Starring:
General Charles de Gaulle

Five times, french president General Charles de Gaulle has think to resign. Last time in may 1968. In june 1968, it tells his memoirs about this five critical times. The documentary displays footages of each caracteric period by archived news footage, some showing Charles de Gaulle at that time. As Chief of Free France then as president, he often used airplanes to travel or visit airbases. Several aircrafts are seen, mainly in the background (listing in order of apparition).

Loire 130

French flying boat of the mid 30's ordered at 150 examples. Think to reconnaissance and light bombing tasks from naval bases or from catapult on battleships.

Loire 130.

Loire 130 with the code HS 24 which in september 1940 linked it to the Strasbourg battleship.

de Havilland DH86A Express

DH 86 registration G-ADFF, baptised Dione.

Supermarine Spitfire II

Spitfire II of the free french.

Lockheed C-56 Lodestar

Seen several times during the war years.

Registration FC-AXM (FC- for France Combattante / fighting France).

Nakajima B5N

Nakajima B5N archive footage to illustrate the Pearl Harbor disaster.

Unidentified Aircraft

Always about events of 7th december 1941. Perhpas P-40 ?

Merlin 24

Seen between deux shots of the Lockheed C-56 (which is powered in fact by Wright R-1820 radials).

Probably the left wing engine of the Avro York.

Glenn Martin 167 A-3

Medium bomber Martin Model 167 ordered by France in 1938, delivered in the begining of 1940. Some were later converted to VIP's transportation.

General Giraud coming out, by the underside, helped by the squat pilot.

Casablanca Conference, January 14, 1943

Caudron-Renault C.635 Simoun

Lockheed Hudson Mk VI

Lockheed Hudson, registration FK532.

Avro 685 York I

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

C-47 of G.T. 3/62 Sahara

Sud-Aviation 316 Alouette III

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