sentences:  French aviation entered the War in 1939 without even the prototype of a bomber aeroplane capable of reaching Berlin and coming back.French industrial efforts in fighter aircraft were dispersed among several firms (Dewoitine, Morane-Saulnier and Marcel Bloch), each with its own models.On the naval front, France had purposely overlooked building modern aircraft carriers and focused instead on four new conventional battleships, not unlike the German Navy.