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74%u0010%u0013%u0016%u0017)2%u00061 France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Yugoslavia, and (depending on your definition of Europe), Turkey. Volunteers also came from neutral Switzerland, Sweden and Eire as did a number of refugees who had previously fled from Austria and Germany. 2 Brown, A; Airmen in Exile (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000) p182. 3 See TNA AIR2/5663: %u2018Proposed Directorate to deal with the organisation and administration of the Allied air personnel in the country%u2019. 4 TNA AIR2/5663 Enclosure 14c. 5 Brown op cit, pp7811. 6 See TNA AIR2/5663 passim.7 TNA FO371/34372 Enclosure 64. 8 TNA FO371/34372 Enclosure 67. 9 TNA FO371/24372 passim. 10 Berthon, S; Allies at War (Harper Collins, London, 2001) pp 35839. 11 Apart from anything else, while De Gaulle had briefly been Under Secretary of State for National Defence, and a brevet general, he was technically now only a colonel with no political or diplomatic standing. He did, however, have determination, strength of character, and a strong sense of destiny. 12 TNA FO371/24372. 13 TNA FO371/24372 Enclosure 390. Free French personnel on parade at the Franco?Belgian Air Training School at Odiham, January 1941.