One of the five Caproni Ca.313Fs delivered to French Armée de l’Air on the Cannes-Mandelieu Airport at the eve of the war from Italy and France. After the end of hostilities the five planes were seized by Italian and transferred to Italian Regia Aeronautica. Photo taken at Cannes.Mandelieu on the first days of June 1940. Victor Sierra

Caproni on Cannes Airport

One of five British built Westland Lysanders of Escadrille “Rennes” of Groupe “Bretagne” of Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres (Free French Air Forces) employed in tactical support missions against the Italians during the operations for the conquest of oasis of Fezzan in the Western Libyan desert. Note under wing the Cross of Lorraine, the symbol adopted from the Free French Forces during World War II. Victor Sierra

French Lysander 

Refueling of a Dewoitine D 520 of the French Vichy Air Force’s Groupe de Chasse III/6 (GC III/6) at Rhodes, at this time in Italian hands, stopover of the ferry flight from Algeria to French Syria, May 27, 1941. The GC III/6 moved urgently from Algiers to Rayak, Lebanon, as reinforcement of the Vichy Forces in Middle East attacked by the British Forces. A number of GC III/6’s D520, together many other airplanes of Vichy Air Force’s was destroyed on the ground and in aerial combats by the British air forces. Victor Sierra