French Bombers of WWII

Forces and resources of the European combatants, 1939

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In spite of complaints regarding the forward fuselage exterior covering and motor attachments, no corrective actions were implemented to address these concerns. Production M. By Bastille Day of that year, sufficient production M. On 23 August , in response to the diplomatic crisis emerging over the Invasion of Poland , all French Air Force units were mobilised as part of preparations to be ready for imminent combat operations.

During the Phoney War opening phase of the Second World War, a time of relatively low combat intensity, the type's activities focused upon air defence operations with the aim of countering the prolific aerial reconnaissance and probing activities of small groups of Axis -aligned fighters coming over the border, in addition to escorting friendly reconnaissance aircraft.

During the Phoney War, isolated skirmishes occurred between the M.

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According to Botquin, by this stage, the weaknesses of the M. While the aircraft was very manoeuvrable and could withstand high amounts of battle damage, potentially giving possible advantages during combat against Luftwaffe fighters, the M. During the relentless fighting that followed, Allied forces suffered a high rate of attrition and were unable to keep up with the level of damage being sustained. In combat against enemy fighters, the M. In the aftermath of the armistice , only a single Vichy unit, GC.

Germany took possession of a large number of M. The Luftwaffe operated a number of the type for training purposes, while others were sold off to third parties.

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Finland purchased additional M. Before the Pacific campaign proper, Vichy authorities in French Indochina were engaged in a frontier war against Thailand , during — A number of M. Some abandoned examples of the M. The M. They were used in combat during the Winter War , against the USSR and carried out operational sorties and shot down 16 Soviet aircraft. The unit lost 15 aircraft. It was the company's first low-wing monoplane design, as well as the first with an enclosed cockpit, and the first to feature retractable landing gear.

While the M. The result was the M.

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Production of the M. Production was allowed to continue under German supervision, converting earlier s to the standard, but many of these aircraft received only the new wings.

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Altogether, a total of 74 planes were modified. A single example of the M. A later modification was started as the M. In , Hispano started prototype deliveries of the new Hispano-Suiza 12Z engine of One was fitted to a modified M. However the engine did not enter production before France fell, and the similarly modified Dewoitine D. In , Switzerland obtained a license for local production of the MS. Two MS. Instruments were replaced with Swiss versions and the drum-fed MAC machine guns with locally designed and built belt-fed guns, eliminating the wing-bulges of the French version, and avoiding the freezing problems encountered by French guns.

The first of these aircraft was completed in November The pre-production models were then followed with an order for a further 74 examples, which were all delivered by 29 August In , a further two were assembled with spares originally set aside for the original production run. During , surviving aircraft were modified with new cooling and hydraulic installations, and were fitted with ejector exhausts.

These modifications were the same standard as the D series, making them identical with the exception of the engine installation. At the end of the war the remaining aircraft were used as trainers, until the last one was scrapped in The Swiss continued development of the MS. The Dornier-Altenrhein factory completed a prototype powered with a licensed-produced HS 12Y engine, generating Another 17 were built from spares between and The engine problems slowed deliveries, with only 16 aircraft produced in and a single aircraft delivered in The engine problems were eventually resolved in After being retired from operational use as a fighter when the North American P Mustang was acquired in , the type remained in service as a trainer and target tug until The D.

The last development of this aircraft was the D.

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The performance was impressive, but the last development of this fighter design had several shortcomings and was not entirely successful. Following the end of the War, the Yak flew with the Polish and Yugoslav Air Forces and then, in , retired from service. The Germans began designing this jet-powered aircraft before the Second World War even started. They had engine problems and interference from top-level officials that kept this amazing machine grounded until It was faster than any Allied aircraft including the British Gloster Meteor and it was heavily armored as well.

The was used in many situations like the light bomber, might fighters and reconnaissance. The Pilots that flew the had confirmed allied kills, though some believe it may have been higher.

The only way the Allies had a chance of winning were to destroy the planes before they could even get off the ground. With its engine reliability issues and the Allied attacks of oilfields, this plane became very ineffective in late-war situations. With all this the had almost no real effect on the war as a whole, they were placed into actions too late, and not enough of them were ever made.

The F4U was used mostly in land-based missions by the U. Marine Corps. The F6F was similar to the Wildcat in a few ways but was actually a completely new design; it was powered by a 2, HP engine, the same engine that was in the F4U and the P Thunderbolt Fighters.

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The F6F was an amazing carrier-fighter, it debuted in , in an attempt to counter the amazing Mitsubishi A6M Zero and it helped to secure air superiority in the Pacific. The quality came from its straightforward and basic design, the F6F was almost never modified and had a total of 12, built in just two years. The F6F was credited with destroying over 5, aircraft while in service for both the U. No other Allied naval aircraft even came close, after the war the F6F was slowly fazed out of frontline mission but was still used as a night fighter up until The is literally one of the best fighters of all time, no Allied plane that fought against it will ever forget what it could do.

It was introduced in ; the fighter almost immediately started to tear through the RAF and was putting down major punishment of Allied bombers. The was highly respected by all the Allied pilots and it was a perfect fighter, fighter-bomber, and anti-tank aircraft. Oberleutnant Otto Kittel — who was an amazing pilot — scored almost all of his killed in a With the imminent collapse of France, several MB s were flown to North Africa to escape, but most of these excellent craft were destroyed to prevent capture. The surviving machines were subsequently employed by Vichy air units in the defense of Tunisia.

The Germans also kept the type in production, taking on 56 machines as trainers. During the immediate postwar period, an additional 80 MB Ts were constructed as torpedo-bombers for the French navy. These flew capably until being replaced in by more modern designs. The ugly Farman F was the largest French bomber of the interwar period. Its service was undistinguished, but the type mounted the first Allied air raid against Berlin. The design concept for the Farman family of heavy bombers originated with a requirement calling for a five-seat aircraft to replace the obsolete LeO 20s.

The prototype, designated the F , first flew in May and had all the trappings of a French bomber of this period. It was a high-wing monoplane with wings of considerable chord and thickness, braced by large struts canting inward toward the fuselage. The fuselage itself was very boxy and angular, sporting pronounced nose and dorsal turrets and a smaller ventral position. The overall effect was an unattractive, if capable, craft and, being entirely constructed from metal, a signal improvement over earlier bombers.

With some refinements it entered production as the F in and was acquired in small batches. These represented the first four-engine bombers produced by the West at that time. Looks aside, the Farman F series was strong, reliable, and continually acquired in a series of updated models.

The most important was the F of , which featured a redesigned nose section, dihedral on the outer wing sections, and retractable landing gear. However, the Farman aircraft were readily overtaken by aviation technology and rendered obsolete by After the Battle of France commenced in May , several groups of Farman aircraft made numerous nighttime raids against industrial targets in Germany and Italy. Many subsequently escaped to North Africa and were employed as transports by various regimes until Total production reached 45 units.

In , Plan I of the air force which confirmed independence from the army called for aerial bombing, reconnaissance, and interception missions. At the top, aerial regiments were replaced by air fleets, each divided into air groups, each of those split into squadrons.

These groups were assigned to cover one of the five aerial regions of France and Algeria. In addition, an aerial mobilization plan was put together. However, the World War I notion of bomber units also acting as reconnaissance confused the effective development of an air doctrine.

Pierre Cot, who acted as air minister during the left-wing Popular Front government of , sought to clarify the French air doctrine by having Plan V emphasize fighters. Yet by the time he left office, there was considerable confusion in what an air force should truly do.

This was, unfortunately, the case when the Luftwaffe attacked in May Combined with the confusion that reigned among the air force officer corps, the confusion over a proper air doctrine gave Germany a decisive advantage.

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