Aleppo airfield: Australian troopers looking at French Vichy Air Force’s recce aircraft Potez 63.11 abandoned, at first glance in good conditions, after the surrender in Middle East on July 1941. Likely this aircraft was switched to Free French Forces with fought together the British against the French of the other part of the edge. Victor Sierra 

Aleppo airfield

Australian troops surrounding Vichy Air Force’s planes, a Potez 631 in foreground and MS.406 in background, abandoned on a Syrian airfield after the surrender of the French Vichy forces, July 1941. Note over the Potez’s tail plane the red and yellow strips, present also over the engine cowlings, particularity of the Vichy Air Force’s aircraft. Victor Sierra

After the Vichy’s surrender

Morane-Saulnier MS.406 of the French Vichy Air Force’s Groupe de Chasse (Fighter Group) I/7 landing at Rayak Air Base, Lebanon, late 1940. The GC I/7 was one of the Vichy air unites deployed in the Levant (Syria and Lebanon) committed to desperate counter-attacks against the British and Free French forces on June-July 1941. Victor Sierra