Eventually the exiled French banded together to form the Free French air force. In November 1942 the Allies invaded North Africa, defeating the Axis forces there and liberating the French units in ...

including Yakovlev Yak-3 fighters flown by the Normandie-Niemen regiment of the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres—the Free French Air Force. By then, everyone in Russia had heard of “the ...