43-48336 supplied to the RAF as Dakota Mk.IV KJ813. Returned to the Americans in November 1947. To French air force as 348336 in April 1949. Seen with GT 3/62 'Sahara' at home base Algiers - Maison Blanche. Squadron badge shows a camel rider. Note the Breguet Deux-Ponts in the background. 348336 to Senegal in 1961 as 6W-SAA. Photo by: Marcel Vandy / ECPAD

F-B registrations were issued by the Vichy administraton, but this Góeland (seagull) has turned Free French. Photo by: Robert Moisy / ECPAD

Delivered to Régie Air Afrique in March 1939, named Brazzaville. Under the Vichy regime, it operated with Air France titles though officially it belonged to a larger entity called Réseau Aérien Français. Seen here in Free French military service at Algiers - Maison Blanche, also the airport where this Super Electra was last noted abandoned in the 1960s. Photo by: Robert Moisy / ECPAD

Although this Lodestar survives in Finland, its early history is not easily found. Just before the fall of France in 1940, F-ARTF was delivered to French state company Air Afrique. In July 1940 it flew from Morocco to Dakar, carrying personnel of a Curtiss Hawk 75 squadron. Turned from Vichy to Free French, it is seen at Algiers - Maison Blanche in 1944. It wears Air France titles plus an illegible text above the cabin windows, and the Air France winged seahorse on the nose. To Aéro-Africaine after the war. To OH-VKU in 1953. Photo by: Robert Moisy / ECPAD

Built in 1936 for Dakar - Natal transatlantic mail service. Seen here at Algiers - Maison Blanche in 1944 with a British bomber and a USAAF B-25 in the background. Apparently not written off after an acccident at Casablanca on 31 August 1942. Photo by: Robert Moisy / ECPAD

Registered to Air France in December 1937. Named Ville de Beyrouth and used on route to French Indochina. Requisitioned by French air force. Seized by British from Vichy forces in July 1941 and transferred to Free French, who based it in Damascus. Photo by: Robert Moisy / ECPAD

As 42-5682, this early C-47 (no suffix) was already in Algeria in 1943. She dropped paratroopers over Sainte-Mère-Église on D-Day. To SE-AYL. To Air Atlas in 1949. This company merged into Air Maroc, the predecessor of Royal Air Maroc, in 1953 but the aircraft still wears dual titles here on 23 October 1956. The previous day, it was bringing leaders of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) to a meeting in Tunis, but was intercepted by French aircraft and forced to land in Algiers. Aircraft returned, to RAM and Moroccan air force. Photo by: Guy Defives-Choupin / ECPAD

'Algeria trip.' Location thought to be Algiers and F-BASR was based there too. Photo by: Hans Gerber / ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Served initially for USAAF as 42-24211 and participated to D-Day in Normandy with 48 Sqn / 313 TCG. Sold to Aigle Azur as F-BEFA and to Royal Air Maroc in 1957. Became later N54607 & G-BPMP. Finaly reduced to spares and scrapped in 1995. Taken by a member of my family in 1961.