Find here the reticule used by all three most important French gunsights in WW2:

1/ The "Optique de prcision de Levallois, viseur clair, modle 1931" called "OPL 31" which is quite special since it goes through the front wind shield. It was mostly used by the MS 406, C 174, Br 693 and D 500/501/510.

2/ The "Baille-Lemaire modle 1938" called "G.H 38" or "GH-38" was used by near all the WW2 French fighters except those above.

3/ The "Optique de prcision de Levallois modle 1939" called "OPL "RX 39", "RX.391" or "RX.393"  was named "Lantern visor" or "Greek temple". It was mostly used on the Dewoitine D 520 and the Arsenal VG33 but was also seen on the Hawk H-75 and the MB 152.

* I dont know how looks like the reticule from the Baille-Lemaire "G.H 40" probably used on some Arsenal VG 33

Note: the two last known gunsights, OPL RX 39 and G.H 38, both used a set of seven reticuls selected by hands accordingly with the target's speed from 250 km/h to 550 km/h with 50 km/h increment. 
More speedy was the target and more the selected reticule show a small straight ligne moving outside over the 8 radial dotted lines to show how mutch the deflection increase with estimated target speed. Indeed it seems that most of the French pilots generaly dislike this and usualy prefer to use the 8 radial dotted lines only. 
 
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You only need to drop the gunsight.spt file in your European Air War Folder;
If you use a gunsight manager (from Viper or Spit9), rename the gunsight.spt and the GH_38.bmp with the name you want and drop them in your gunsight manager main folder.

Thanks to:
	- Pachy who show me the "OPL 31" reticule drawing he got from the French Historical Air Army Historical Center called "S.H.A.A.".
	- and Keiblin for his gunsight palette

Sources:
	- Curtiss Hawk 75 - J.Cuny & G.Beauchamp - Docavia - Ed Larivire 
	- Le Bloch MB-152 - S.Joanne - Collection Histoire de l'Aviation N13 - Ed Lela Presse  (very good if you want to know more about French gunsights)
 

LLv34_Doc, 

HR French reticule - 17 May 2004. 







