Flight to Arras
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title:
Flight to Arras
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Flight to Arras is a memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Written in 1942, it recounts his role in the Armée de l'Air as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of flights into a single, terrifying mission over the town of Arras. Saint-Exupéry was assigned to Reconnaissance Group II/33 flying the twin-engine Bloch MB.170. At the start of the war there were only fifty reconnaissance crews, of which twenty-three were in his unit.
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1942 book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_to_Arras
date created:
2005-10-08T04:08:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T23:46:12Z
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