Ref: AZ48057
Created: 03/11/2010
POTEZ 630 "French Air Force Heavy Fighter"
Description: The Potez 630 and its derivatives were a family of twin-engined aircraft developed for the French Armée de l’Air in the late 1930s. The design was a contemporary of the British Bristol Blenheim and the German Messerschmitt Bf 110.
Description: The French production light bomber under Greek colors in 1941. Decals for a Greek bomber in 1941, a captured Romanian plane and a French Bomber in 1940.
Description: The Vought Vindicator was a carrier-based dive bomber developed for the United States Navy in the 1930s, the first monoplane in this role. Obsolescent at the outbreak of World War II.
Based on the SB2U-2, the V-156-F incorporated specific French equipment. Briefly after the deliveries started in July 1939, V-156-F crews were trained for carrier operations aboard Béarn, but when the war broke out the old carrier was declared too slow for operational service. As a result V-156-F-equipped units, escadrilles AB 1 and AB 3, were based ashore when the Battle of France started. AB 1 sustained heavy losses while attacking bridges and German ground targets in Northern France, while AB 3’s V-156-Fs were briefly engaged against the Italians. By the time of the Armistice, there were only a handful of remaining Voughts in French hands, and the type was phased out of service.