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Yorkshire Air Museum marks eighty years since two squadrons of French personnel took over the running of the heavy bomber base, in the run-up to D-Day.<br/>Elvington was the only RAF base staffed entirely by foreign personnel and became know as ‘la petite France’.<br/>With weeks of the flag-raising the French crews would be in action, flying Halifax bombers to strike a German gun battery at Grandcamp Maisy in Normandy on the very eve of D-Day.<br/>Today saw a flag raising ceremony similar to the one held 80 years ago.
Yorkshire Air Museum marks eighty years since two squadrons of French personnel took over the running of the heavy bomber base, in the run-up to D-Day.<br/>Elvington was the only RAF base staffed entirely by foreign personnel and became know as ‘la petite France’.<br/>With weeks of the flag-raising the French crews would be in action, flying Halifax bombers to strike a German gun battery at Grandcamp Maisy in Normandy on the very eve of D-Day.<br/>Today saw a flag raising ceremony similar to the one held 80 years ago.
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