A very long shot: Vernon on 12 June 1940

[Laurent Rizzotti]

On 12 June 1940, the German Pioner Abteilung 88 was in Vernon, building pontoons over the Seine, but suffered in two Allied air attacks.

My (German) source says:

"On afternoon one lonely french plane knocked the bridge with one direct impact, four pontoons were sunk and 25 meters of bridge were destroyed, also six pioniers were killed. The bridge was repaired in four hours. During the night another isolated hostile plane dropped several bombs over one engineer platoon killling 5 and wounded 30 pioniers."

So my question is: can anybody identify Allied aircraft operating in the area, especially a crew/unit claiming the destruction of a bridge ? Despite what the German said, it could fairly well be a RAF bomber rather than a French one.

Thanks in advance

Laurent