A Lockheed Lightning's unusual view: the plane is a F-5 of the Free French Air Force’s Groupe de Reconnaissance 2/33, GR2/33, on Pomigliano d’Arco airfield, Naples, committed to mechanics for the preparation of a photographic recce mission. At the GR2/33’s 1re escadrille was assigned, 11 Juin 1943, Antoine Jean Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry or simply Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Victor Sierra

French Lightning

Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples, spring 1944, Free French Air Force’s Groupe de Reconnaissance 2/33, or GR2/33, (Recce Group 2/33): parachute’s control of the Lockheed F-5, recce version of the P-38 Lightning number 80 “Jeanne”, a famous aircraft: “Jeanne” was the plane assigned at Antoine de Sainty-Exupéry, the same upon which will meet one’s end on 31 July 1944. Victor Sierra

“Jeanne”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the cockpit of his P-38. At the age of 44, he had by far exceded the age requirements for a front-line fighter pilot. 