A flight of ungainly Amiot 43, this outdated French bomber could carry 1,5 tons of bombs at a max speed of 295Km/h (185 mph). 50 of them were still in service in May 1940.

Amiot 143

U 105 sunk 2 June, 1943 near Dakar by depth charges from a one-of-a-kind French Potez-CAMS 141 flying boat named "Antarés" of Flotille d'exploration 4E, French Naval Air Force. 53 dead (all hands lost).
Only one prototype was built and was sent to the Vichy forces in Morocco. It subsequently flew patrols with the Free French until late 1943 when it was retired thorugh lack of spares and later scrapped.

Potez -CAMS 141

Marshal of France Phillipe Petain and Pierre Laval discuss the dismantling of the Third Republic, July, 1940.  Pétain did not like Laval who, in common with most political leaders of the late Third Republic, was a thoroughly bourgeois political fixer.  This sort of individual was not to appealing to &quot;Our Marshal&quot;, who found them rather crude and unsophisticated, notwithstanding his own fairly modest rural origins.  Pétain also adopted an increasingly autocratic - indeed monarchical - style as ruler of the &quot;État Francaise&quot;, and tended to resent interference from the activities of underlings such as prime ministers.  As a result, the relationship between Pétain and Laval was somewhat &quot;in and out&quot; for the period of the Vichy régime.  Nevertheless, &quot;Our Marshal&quot; relied on politicians - principally Laval - to ensure that the Vichy government of political eccentrics and extremists, not to mention bureaucrats with a marked variety of profiles ranging form extreme Right wingers to conservative civil servants anxious only to preserve as much of the power of the Vichy régime as possible.  After the war, unprotected by the aura of the Victor of Verdun, Laval was the most prominent of those politicians who opted to work fro Vichy to be sentenced to death and executed for treason.  Best regards, JR.