
Originally Posted by
flightsimg
As I deviced once a website about the French Air Force by May 1940, when Germany attacked West, you may understand like that.
Most of the French planes of the time were outpaced, generally, except the famed Dewoitine 520 or the Curtiss which France bought from the USA.
The remaining of the most recent warplanes programs had been foiled by the 'Front populaire' strikes. That's why authors about the period are underscoring that, despite that, French pilots, scored well against the Luftwaffe. They also often question, on the other hand, whether the RAF did not spare its best planes which equiped the British Expeditionary Force, on the continent, like the Spitfire, for the expected Battle of England
And that's why, when Allies landed in North Africa by November 1942, they upgraded French pilots who were serving there, to latest airplanes
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