Historical
Squadron 10-E was created
on November 22, 1939, under the command of Lieutenant BRARD. The
unit was to be equipped, eventually, "PBY Catalina" that
the Navy had planned to command the United States in January 1940.
In anticipation of these new aircraft, which will never come, events
require, the Army Air sells 3 Farman F222 to the Navy. Crews and
aircraft meet at Orly in December 1939 for four-engine flight training.
After this takeover, the
unit is sent in early January 1940 in Casablanca and Goulimine in
Morocco, small land in the middle of the Moroccan desert.
The unit will carry out long
missions of surveillance and exploration over the Atlantic off the
coast of Morocco, and protections of convoys over the South Atlantic.
On June 6, 1940, one of the aircraft, the 10E-2 joined Istres to
carry out bombing missions of Italian targets. June 14, 16, 19 and
21, 1940
The rest of the unit, still
in Morocco, begins to perceive the new Gleen-Martin 167F, but will
be surprised by the Armistice
