Thursday 5 October 2017

Amiot 354 - Various users

As these aircrafts went beyond our radar, we have decided to post them now because we felt that it was needed.
Those two users are Vichy France and the Third Reich.
Vichy France, wanting to keep the connections with the French colonies, specially with Djibouti and Madagascar, asked the German authorities for permisson to use Amiot twin-engined airplanes qualified as mail airplanes to carry mail, medicines and supplies. They all served with Air France for that matter and most of them were Amiot 351 that were converted into 354 standard, unarmed in order to keep the aerial link between French metropolitan land and the aforementioned colonies of Madagascar and Djibouti. One of them suffered an accident when landing in Dakar, Senegal and was forced to remain there until after the end of the war, until 1946.
Germany, captured four of them when they entered in Amiot's factory and assigned two of them to the Luftwaffe that served until 1942 with the famous 1./KG 200 special service geschwader and, one of them were used by the high command of the Luftflotte 3.










Sources:
1. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiot_354 (translated)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiot_354

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