Description
Author: Jon Sutherland & Diane Canwell
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Place: Barnsley
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: New Book
Category: WW2 Aviation
Year: 2013
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: viii + 173pp., b/w pls., text ills., bibliog., At the beginning of World War II the French faced the German invasion with 4,360 modern combat aircraft and 790 new machines currently arriving from French & American factories each month. When the phoney war finally ended, some 119 of 210 squadrons were ready for action on the North-eastern front. The others were re-equipping or stationed in the French colonies. Of the 119 squadrons France could bring into action only one-fourth of the aircraft were battle-ready. With France overrun by June 1940, what remained of the French air force was either concentrated in the unoccupied zone or had been hastily redeployed to the colonies. Nonetheless, in retaliation for the British attack on the French fleet in Oran, French bombers, based in French Morocco, carried out retaliatory air raids over Gibraltar
