To prove I read it if nothing else.....
If the 120 B-24s mentioned are from this first line item, I'm not sure there are 120 B-24s in existence full-stop by May-41, certainly not combat-coded ones and I'm not sure there ever can be. If the 120 B-24s are from the second line item, they are certainly at least a minimally combat-capable model and the timeline is much more reasonable but they are far too late for the op in question!
The rest of that document is interesting but does create the impression of I'll take a little bit of this, a little bit from here, ooo I like that plane, without addressing the fact that France - in it's deleterious and depleted (for now) condition - cannot be all things in all roles as the more intact allies can. It will have to make choices and pick which roles to throw in with.
PBY, PBM, Duck, Goose, Sunderland, *some* MR Liberators, Walrus AND Hudson? France receiving 1200 Bostons, during and after their work up of an eventual 800 Marauders strikes as quite astonishing really. Mitchells too! The several hundred North American trainers? With scant resources, surely they would just get in on the existing US/Commonwealth training pipelines? Of course, with the numbers involved here, the Free French will have to have entire Commonwealth/Eagle squadrons or else have hundreds of newly-delivered warplanes gathering dust in North African airfields whilst the training pipeline catches up. Once I got to the hundreds of Corsair, Avenger and Dauntless and realised fallen France had more combat power than the Fleet Air Arm is when I think I finally, belatedly moved my brain into popcorn-flick mode. It's entertainment - don't overthink it.
There is obviously going to be a reluctance to re-write this long-standing timeline which is understandable but that does then raise questions as to what the purpose is here. I have my suspicions that you don't really want critical advice - you want plaudits (and I'm not singling you out here [USER=138]@Archibald[/USER], I'm talking about a general FFO collective here and perhaps this section full stop! It's human nature). I'm not going to waste my time signing up there and be the insta-outsider given the cold shoulder, or worse but I'm more than happy to discuss the limited aspects of this timeline within my grasp *here* if there is any interest? Of course, I'm also happy to take my ball and go play on the motorway, as my Dad would put it.
