France 701 Training Air Base French Air Force by Drago

France: Badge of the 701 Training Base of the 
French Air Force, in Salon de Provence. 
The badge is maker marked  by Drago Paris. 
Salon de Provence Air Base is a pre-WW2 
airfield, which was used by the French Air 
Force during the early part of the war. 
It served briefly as a base for RAF Bomber 
Command Wellingtons, which were sent to 
Salon from England, for raids on the Italian 
port of Genoa, as a part of Operation Haddock. 
After the capitulation of  Franc, it became part 
of the air force of the Vichy Government. 
In 1942, Salon-de-Provence Air Base was 
seized by Nazi forces. 
Since 1946 the base hosts the training schools 
of the French Air Force and Military Aviation.

post WW2 1945 era -  Colonial War's 1950s 

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