I dont know a great deal about the Armee de l'Air involvement but the daylight raid by the Amiot 143's on the Sedan bridgehead comes to mind. You could probably make a passable recreation of that mission using the TB-3, suitably skinned. Lots of fighter support options. -- Maybe too many engines but it would "feel" right I think.
Operationally, units equipped with the Amiot 143 performed with distinction. The eight squadrons flew 551 night bombing sorties between 10 May and 16 June and lost only twelve aircraft. In addition, six of the squadrons furnished thirteen aircraft for one desperate daylight mission on 14 June against German bridges and vehicular traffic approaching Sedan. A strong fighter escort kept the loss to three Amiots.
I presume this was a high level attack, hence the low losses relative to the huge RAF losses on the Albert Canal bridges attack which were carried out at low level. I haven't read of any disruption caused by this attack from the German perspective.
quote from
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/a.../kirkland.html
taken from, Colonel Pierre Paquier, L'aviation de bombardment française (Paris: Berger-Levrault, 194
, pp. 208-49
12-03-2007, 08:27 AM
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