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| SNCASE SE.100. The SNCASE SE.100 was a French two-seat, twin-engined fighter which first flew in 1939. Mass production was planned to begin late in 1940 but the Fall of France prevented this. |
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| French SNCASE SE.100. |
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| French SNCASE SE.100. |
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| French SNCASE SE.100. |
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| French SNCASE SE.100. |
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| French SNCASE SE.100. |
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| French SNCASE SE.100. |
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| French SNCASE SE.100. |
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| French SNCASE SE.100. |
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| French SNCASE SE.100 cockpit. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210 group in review, 1936. |
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| Bloch MB.210, GB 1/31. |
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| Bloch MB.210, 1940. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210s, GB I/19. |
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| Bloch MB.210, number 05. |
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| Bloch MB.210, GB I/19, Tunisia, pre-war. |
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| Bloch MB.210, GB I/19, La Rochelle, 4 November 1939. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210, number 40 (129) of the 2nd Squadron of GB 1/21, French air force. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210, Tours, 1939. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210Bn.5. |
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| Bloch MB.210 after emergency landing in Spain. |
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| Bloch MB.210 after crash in Tours. |
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| Another view of the same MB.210 crash in Tours. |
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| Bloch MB.210 cockpit. |
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| Bloch MB.210, blue 5, sits abandoned after the fall of France, June 1940. |
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| Bloch MB.210 stands intact after the fall of France, June 1940. |
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| Bloch MB.210 captured after the fall of France, June 1940. |
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| Bloch MB.210 sits abandoned after the fall of France, June 1940. |
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| Bloch MB.210 (N158) captured after the fall of France, June 1940. |
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| Bloch MB.210 (N158) captured after the fall of France, June 1940. |
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| French Bloch MB.210 destroyed on the ground, May-June 1940. |
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| Bloch MB.210 destroyed by a Luftwaffe raid, France, May 1940. |
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| Bloch MB.210 abandoned, Battle of France, May-June 1940. |
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| Bloch MB.210 “White 1”. |
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| Bloch MB.210 “White 6”. |
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| Bloch MB.210 No 33 of the 2nd Escadrille of GB II/21 in 1939. |
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| Bloch MB.210 No 33 of the 2nd Escadrille of GB II/21 in 1939. |
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| Bloch MB.210. |
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| German troops with captured MB.210. |
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| Bloch MB.210 floatplane. |
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| Bloch MB.210 floatplane. |
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| Bloch MB.211 prototype. |
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| Bloch MB.210 second prototype. |
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| MB.211, number 1, "Verdun". |
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| MB.211, number 1, "Verdun". |
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| Bloch MB.211 at the Salon de l'aviation, circa 20 November 1934. |
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| Bloch MB.211 at the Salon de l'aviation, circa 29 November 1934. |
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| Undercarriage of Bloch MB.211 at the Salon de l'aviation, circa 29 November 1934. |
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| Curtiss H-75A1 of the 3rd flight of Groupe de Chasse II/5, June 1940. (Martin Čížek) |
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| Hawk 75A-1s, the first production batch for France, with four 7.5 mm (0.295 in) machine guns, R-1830-SC-G of 900 hp (670 kW); 100 built. |
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| Curtiss H75-C1 No. 82. |
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| Curtiss H75C-1 (Hawk 75A-3), Armée de l'Air de l'Armistice, North Africa, 1942. |
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| Insignia of each group of the Armée de l'Air that was equipped with the Hawk H75. |
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| French pilot entering a Hawk H75. |
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| Hawk H75A s/n 113 “White 4” of GC I/4. |
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| Destroyed Hawk 75A-1. |
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| Hawk 75A-2 of GC I/4, flown by Sergent-Chef Joannes Cucumel, Reims airfield, 14 June 1940. On 10 May, Cucumel had shot down a Do 17, followed by a Me 109 and a He 111 the next day. He was later transferred to GC II/9 where he scored many other victories flying Bloch 152s. Credited with a total of nine victories, Cucumel was killed when he crashed in a mountain on 28 August 1942. |
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| Hawk 75A-2, GC I/4, 2e escadrille, n°99 (X898), flown by Sergeant Georges Lemare, June 1940. Flying a Hawk 75, Lemare shot a Do 17 near Calais on 13 January 1940, a Ju 88 off the coast of Zeebruge on 20 May 1940 and later a British Swordfish off the coast of Dakar on 24 September. Having joined the FAFL, Lemare flew with Normandie-Niemen and was credited with a total of six personal victories, and six shared victories. |
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| Hawk 75A-2 of the 2nd Escadrille of the GC II/5 La Fayette, May 1940. This aircraft was often used by Czech pilots: Cne Josef Duda, Sgt.Chef Frantisek Chabera, Sgt.Chef Otto Hanzlicek. |
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| Hawk 75A-3 of the 2nd squadron (SPA 153) of the GC I/4 fighter group, based in Dakar in the summer of 1942. The group scored several victories against Free French and British aircraft during raids in September 1940, September 1941 and August 1942. This aircraft wears the colorful Vichy “neutrality bands” introduced in June 1941 and has an unusual paint scheme, the standard “Gris Bleu Foncé” grey having been replaced with “Chamois” sand-colored paint for better desert concealment. |
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| B. Barbier in front of his Curtiss Hawk 75 with two godmothers of the SPA 153, 3 June 1940. |
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| Curtiss Hawk in French air force colors at the Duxford Spring Airshow, 22 May 2011. |
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| Curtiss H75s in close formation, GC I/4, 3 June 1940. |
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| Assembly line in Bourges, Curtiss Hawk 75s, left, and Potez 631, right. |
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| French Hawk 75. |
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| German soldiers inspect a damaged French Hawk 75, 1940. |
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| Curtiss Hawk H-75C1 (No. 14) of GC I/5. |
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| Curtiss Hawk H-75C1 (No. 40) of GC ?. |
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| Curtiss Hawk H-75C1 (No. 227) has its guns sighted. |
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| Curtiss Hawk H-75C1.. |
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| Curtiss Hawk H-75C1. |
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| Curtiss Hawk H-75C1. |
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| Curtiss Hawk H-75C1 being repaired by ground crew after a wheels up landing. |
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| Curtiss H75-C1, No. 1, intended for the French Air Force, but eventually sent to Britain as the Mohawk. |
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| Curtiss H-75A1, No. 84, shot down 12 May 1940, near Antwerp, Groupe de Chasse 1/4. |
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| Curtiss H75, No. 40, "11," circa 1940. |
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| French Curtiss H75s. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| Curtiss H75 cockpit. |
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| The Vought V-156F is the French version of the Vindicator, a scout bomber. The Vindicator made its maiden flight on 4 January 1936 and 170 were ordered by the US Navy, which used it during the first months of the war together with the Dauntless. The French ordered 39 machines that were delivered starting in July 1939. These machines made some landings on PA Béarn in May 1940 before succumbing to the Flak attacks during the Battle of France. |
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| Potez 63-11 No. 170. |
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| Lioré et Olivier LéO 45 and a Potez 630. |
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| Bréguet Br.691 of GBA II/54. |
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| Latécoère 299A on 25 April 1944. |
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