GrahamClayton, e-mail, 29.12.2024 10:37 The last Dewoitine D510s to be used were with GC I/6 at Dakar, Senegal in 1941, being replaced by Curtiss H-75s.

Kristin High, e-mail, 27.07.2024 03:23 A more sober view of France in the period of the Third Republic would be of benefit, if we are to assess where responsibility for the poor state of French armaments lay by March 1939 (when the Germans violated the Munich Agreement by occupying the remainder of the Czech State). The failures were systemic and complete. The extremism of French political discourse allowed the same set of amoral political figures to run the French Government during the critical Inter-War years, and this poison of mediocrity at its heart killed France--not merely the desire for French workers to have a week-end or over-time pay, nor the Industrialists desire for modern factories and a stable banking system. The French--right, left, and especially centre, seem to have chosen the worst possible course of action at every single turn, and they paid for it with a stunning national defeat that led to national humiliation and the degradation of a once venerated hero.

Army Dicked, 19.12.2014 22:00 The dewoitine D510 was one of my favourite French Aircract of WW2. Although too old to fight in the ETO, they did serve in china against the Japanese. It's a stunning, beautiful mid 1930s air craft. I recall reading they had problems with the 20mm cannon, an early Hispano-Suza. It would jam if you shot it while Diving. The Rifled 7.7mm MGs would do modest damage to unprotected Japanese aircraft and would occasionally bounce off German aircraft. You have to forgive the French---the Socialists did everything they could to throttle the French Govnt to defend France. worse, was the explosive growth in air technology from 1934-1944 where bleeding edge aircraft became useless junk days into manufacture?!?

zudum, e-mail, 13.02.2011 03:02 parece um bom modelo,gosto muito dos aviões da Dewoitine pena que os trem de pousos não eram retráteis