The document discusses the military aircraft capabilities of France and Britain at the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939. France had 634 fighters but 131 were obsolete, and 463 bombers which were nearly all obsolete. Britain was producing the new Hurricane fighter but the higher performance Spitfire did not enter service in large numbers until 1940. At sea, the Allies had a significant advantage over Germany in numbers of large warships in 1939.
The document discusses the military aircraft capabilities of France and Britain at the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939. France had 634 fighters but 131 were obsolete, and 463 bombers which were nearly all obsolete. Britain was producing the new Hurricane fighter but the higher performance Spitfire did not enter service in large numbers until 1940. At sea, the Allies had a significant advantage over Germany in numbers of large warships in 1939.
The document discusses the military aircraft capabilities of France and Britain at the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939. France had 634 fighters but 131 were obsolete, and 463 bombers which were nearly all obsolete. Britain was producing the new Hurricane fighter but the higher performance Spitfire did not enter service in large numbers until 1940. At sea, the Allies had a significant advantage over Germany in numbers of large warships in 1939.
The document discusses the military aircraft capabilities of France and Britain at the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939. France had 634 fighters but 131 were obsolete, and 463 bombers which were nearly all obsolete. Britain was producing the new Hurricane fighter but the higher performance Spitfire did not enter service in large numbers until 1940. At sea, the Allies had a significant advantage over Germany in numbers of large warships in 1939.
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of obsolescent planes in its order of battle: 131 of the 634 fighters and
nearly all of the 463 bombers. France was desperately trying to buy
high-performance aircraft in the United States in 1939.
At sea the odds against Germany were much greater in September
1939 than in August 1914, since the Allies in 1939 had many more large surface warships than Germany had. At sea, however, there was to be no clash between the Allied and the German massed fleets but only the individual operation of German pocket battleships and commerc actually had more planes in 1939 than Germany did, but their strength was made up of many different types, some of them obsolescent. The corresponding table shows the number of first-line military aircraft available to the Allies at the outbreak of war.e raiders.
Great Britain, which was held back by delays in the rearmament
program, was producing one modern fighter in 1939, the Hurricane. A higher-performance fighter, the Spitfire, was just coming into production and did not enter the air war in numbers until 1940.
View archival footage of German troops invading Poland and
forcing Europe into warIn September 1939 the Germans overrun Poland, forcing all of Europe into a state of war. From “The Second World War: Prelude to Conflict” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.See all videos for this article The value of the French Air Force in 1939 was reduced by the number of obsolescent planes in its order of battle: 131 of the 634 fighters and nearly all of the 463 bombers. France was desperately trying to buy high-performance aircraft in the United States in 1939.
At sea the odds against Germany were much greater in September
1939 than in August 1914, since the Allies in 1939 had many more large surface warships than Germany had. At sea, however, there was to be no clash between the Allied and the German massed fleets but only the individual operation of German pocket battleships and commerce raiders.
