"Iain Rae" wrote in message
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Cub Driver wrote:

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That's not that surprising since the French had been under RN guns about
two years previously[*] and relations between the UK and the Vichy
government were never good with the French harrassing Gibraltar airspace ...

I don't recall hearing or reading anything about the French harassing Gibraltar
airspace. How did they manage that? Out of Algeria or Morocco? What was the
Spanish reaction to such incursions? Did the RAF have a presence in Gibraltar
at the time?

George Z.