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Old 8th Aug 2016, 00:20
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Archimedes
 
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You can have a look here, although not all of the pages have been translated into English.

The best book in English is probably Charles Shrader's, The First Helicopter War: Logistics and Mobility in Algeria, 1954-1962 (Westport: Praeger, 1999).

If your French is decent, a chap called Alain Crosnier did a two-volume book L'Armee de l'Air en Afrique du Nord which can, I believe, be obtained from a certain well-known riverine bookseller - although ISTR that they retail at somewhere around £40, so probably an inter-library loan job to try before buying.

As for the aircraft this, from the site above gives a decent insight into what was being used.
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