On 10 May 1940, the French possessed one of the largest air forces
in the world. On paper, it was nearly as strong as the RAF. Six
weeks later, France had been defeated. For a struggling French Army
desperately looking for air support, the skies seemed empty of
friendly planes. In the decades that followed, the debate raged.
Were there unused stockpiles of planes? Were French aircraft really
so inferior? Baughen examines the myths that surround the French
defeat. He explains how at the end of the First World War, the
French had possessed the most effective air force in the world,
only for the lessons learned to be forgotten. Instead, air policy
was guided by radical theories that predicted air power alone would
decide future wars. Baughen traces some of the problems back to the
very earliest days of French aviation. He describes the mistakes
and bad luck that dogged the French efforts to modernise their air
force in the twenties and thirties. He examines how decisions made
just months before the German attack further weakened the air
force. Yet defeat was not inevitable. If better use had been made
of the planes that were available, the result might have been
different.
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