80 Years Ago, In the Med

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French seaplane carrier Commandant Teste, capable of operating twenty-six Loire 130 flying boats and Latécoère 298 torpedo floatplanes, is conducting air searches in the Mediterranean between North Africa and France to protect troop convoys from U-boats. By December it will be determined that the submarine threat is minimal and she will be assigned duty as an aircraft transport, carrying shorter range aircraft purchased from the USA from North Africa where they are delivered and assembled, to metropolitan France.

 

 

Edited October 25, 2019 by cardboard_killer