History of the Armee de l'Air (colonial presence 1939–1962)
Автор:Jesse Russell Год: 2013 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 130 ISBN: 9785508948528 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The outbreak of the war in Europe in September 1939 did not immediately affect the status of the Armee de l’Air in French Indochina because it had the task of defending a wide area of Southeast Asia, including the future Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. And yet its array of airplanes seemed inadequate to perform any kind of real defense against any incursion by an enemy because there were only nearly 100 obsolescent or else obsolete airplanes available to it. In September 1931, Japan invaded and occupied Manchuria. This was an area of northeast China, which encompassed the provinces of Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang. Nearly six whole years later, in July 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War had begun. As yet, the French colonial authorities were hoping that the Japanese would not be so brazen enough to take on the might of a European power. However, it became increasingly likely after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, since Japan...
