Thread: US aircaft types ferried on French carrier Bearn, June 1940?
View Single Post
  #7  
Old 30th March 2007, 13:06
Sid Guttridge Sid Guttridge is offline
Member
  
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 68
Sid Guttridge is on a distinguished road
Re: US aircaft types ferried on French carrier Bearn, June 1940?
Hi Petitpoucet,

Many thanks.

I have read that the Americans wanted to buy the aircraft back, but the Vichy French refused because the Armistice conditions with Germany forbade it. They were therefore put ashore where US observers could keep an eye on them.

I have also read that the aircraft were sabotaged by the Vichy authorities in Martinique at a point when they feared a US occupation and that this was only discovered after July 1943. Is there any truth in the sabotage story?

Cheers,

Sid.
Reply With Quote