Fighters for France

摘要

France, chronically short of modern fighter aircraft, ordered 1,000 aircraft in four versions between May 1938 and October 1939. By September 1939, the Armee de I'Air had received 100 four-gun Hawk 75A-1s (as the French export P-36 was named) and 100 six-gun A-2s. The Hawk 75A-3 version with an improved 1,200 h.p. R-1830-S1C3G engine would soon follow, with 135 being built, some 60 having reached France, with a number also making it as far as French Morocco, when the French capitulated.