Cocorico! (that is how roosters speak in French - common French expression of pride or victory - Rooster is one of the French symbol, the only bird that keeps singing when knee deep in poop! :lol: )
Anyways, yes, we did it in 1940 and that is good to know...
But what about that one:
First Lieutenant Anselme Marchal had special skills...he pioneered the psy-op from the air, getting his kicks flying low over German trenches and dropping thousands of leaflets...that was WW1 and, again (sorry
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), we are talking of a Frenchie.
Special skills led him to design a special airplane for a special mission:
A Nieuport XI was prepared for a couple of months and fitted with extra fuel tanks for a 1500 kms flight.
5000 leaflets are printed in German telling the readers that they could have been bombs killing women and children, that the German government was lying, that peace was far from close and that they could be reached!
The target (again), Berlin!!! His map is 7 meters long!
June 21 1916, Marchal reaches Berlin after a 21hour night flight (to avoid the Fokkers) and drops its leaflets on the German capital before heading to the Russian lines and liaise with our allies at Rovno.
Unfortunately, the engine failed him and he is forced to land around the German city of Chelm.
Sent to Jail in the famous POW castle of Kustrin, he escaped February 14 1918 with legendary pilot and hero Roland Garros.