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 

Eleusis Airport, May 1941: a French Vichy Air Force’s Potez 540 parked on this Greek airport near Athens used as technical stop for the ferry flight from Algiers to Rayak, Lebanon, of the Dewoitine D.520 of the Groupe de Chasse (Fighter Group) GC III/6 moved urgently to French Levant attacked by the British and Free French Forces. On board of this Potez 540, a former bomber now employed in ancillaries roles, travelled the GC III/6’s technical personnel committed to support the D.520 moved to Levant where the Vichy’s air forces were almost destroyed by the RAF and RAAF’s air raids. See also www.ww2incolor.com/d/756906-2/D520-JU52-ELEUSIS. Victor Sierra

Stop at Eleusis

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