L'Appel du 18 Juin

TV Movie (2010)

Starring:
Michel Vuillermoz (Charles de Gaulle)
Christian Rodska (Winston Churchill)
Clément Roussier (lieutenant Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel)
Peter Hudson (général Spears)

From the 17 may till the 18 of June, the decisive days which led Charles de Gaulle to broadcast his famous Appeal of 18 June (broadcasted at 10 PM and again the next day during day hours).

Messerschmitt Bf 109

A Bf 109 F-4/R1 nose code 5 RG+BL in front of two Bf 109 G-6/R6 nose code 6 and 11.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Beechcraft E18S (Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor)

Reg. F-AZEJ Beechcraft E18S melting the US star (not always hidden) with a RAF roundel.
The marking close to the access door is one time red with two star (denoting the personnal aircraft of a general), another one grey with "UK". And underwing : US ARMY !
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Supermarine Spitfire I

K5054 Supermarine Spitfire first prototype.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

No. 222 Squadron Spitfires wearing code ZD (from March 1940).

Yakovlev Yak-11

Reg. F-AZNN Yakovlev Yak-11 restored in 1987 as a single-seat Yak in the colors of Marcel Lefèvre, Normandie Niémen Regiment top ace (this French unit under Soviet /Eastern Front command was originally formed as Groupe de Chasse Normandie 3 ... in 1942).
Same aircraft in Les chevaliers du ciel (2005) and Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus.

North American T-6G (acting as Grumman F6F Hellcat)

North American T-6G (former s/n 51-14367, actually registered as F-AZHD 'North American NA-68') modified to play a Grumman F6F Hellcat painted in the Aéronautique Navale (French Naval Air Arm).
Seen unidentifiable in Diên Biên Phú.

De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide

Registration F-AZCA, c/n 6541 built in 1940.
The historic flight of June 17 took place on board a de Havilland Flamingo (only 14 built and no one surviving past the 1950s).
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Messerschmitt Bf 109 (CGI)

Fictitious event as the plane in which seated Spears and de Gaulle flew over La Rochelle and Rochefort then made a stopover in Jersey and arrived in London in the early afternoon. No attack by a German fighter plane en route, which was added by the editor and/or writter.

Barrage balloon

Various French Aircraft

1 : Reg. F-AZCP Morane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet;
2 : Reg. F-AZJD Dewoitine D-26 c/n 322 (SA-290);
3 : Reg. F-AZUC Morane-Saulnier MS.317;
4 : Morane-Saulnier MS.230 facing the camera;
5 : (French tricolor stripes) side view of a dismantled fuselage ? Maybe MS ?