Armee De l'Air Losses

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Martin's Invincibles vainqueurs is the best source on French losses available on the book market but is listing only air losses (no number given for ground losses) and only for first line units. The DAT patrols (territory defences) are not included even if they were combat units.

I have not yet reached this point in French archives (and have no more time to return to SHAAT) so can't give you an overall figure.

To have the complete view of Allied losses, you should also add the naval air arms: French "Aéronavale" and British "Fleet Air Arm". Both should add about 50-100 losses to the total number.

And if you want you can count Switzerland as Allied, as their arcraft fought againts the Luftwaffe several times in June. If I remember well they lost 2 planes.

For Belgian losses, I found on the Net that 53 of the 179 Belgian aircraft were destroyed on 10 May.