[2] After the Armistice, the pilots on the base were ordered not to escape to join the Free French and the aircraft were placed under armed guard.

Despite this, Mouchotte and five comrades (including Henry Lafont) escaped in a twin-engined Caudron Goéland aircraft, only to find that the controls for the variable-pitch propellers had been disabled, making the take-off hazardous.

[3] However they did manage to land in Gibraltar and later transferred to the Free French armed trawler, Président Houduce and sailed to England.

The squadron moved to RAF Kenley in December 1940 and in August 1941 Mouchotte participated in the shooting-down of a Junkers Ju 88.

[4] He was shot down and killed in combat with Fw 190s of JG 26 during Ramrod S.8, escorting Flying Fortresses on the first daylight raid to Blockhaus d'Éperlecques in the Pas de Calais on 27 August 1943.

In 1956 it was translated into English by Philip John Stead and published in the United Kingdom under the title The Mouchotte Diaries; by the following year, eight editions had been printed.

Cambrai Epinoy is no longer an active establishment, so the French Air Force Training Base at Cazaux was named after Commandant Mouchotte in September 2012.

[9] The RAF headquarters in Gibraltar was renamed the Mouchotte Building on the weekend of the Battle of Britain Commemorations on 14–15 September 2013.

[10] Mouchotte was the subject of a BBC One television programme shown in the United Kingdom on Inside Out on 28 January 2013 and another version filmed at Elvington with Ian Reed and Jan Leeming in February 2013.

[11] Mouchotte's British campaign medals, including the Battle of Britain Clasp, were not presented to his family after the war and were obtained by Ian Reed (AFHG) and Vladimir Touplin (Musée de Ordre de Liberation) who presented them to his sister along with recently discovered footage of her brother taken in 1943, before she died in June 2012.

Later they were officially presented to family members along with the medals of Mouchotte's friend Henry Lafont, in the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris on 13 July 2012.