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1944
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Marcel Bloch is deported to Buchenwald. Refusing to build airplanes for the German war machine, he contracts diphtheria and nearly dies.
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1945
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Liberated by the Americans, Bloch returns to find his factories operating more or less normally! He loses no time in regrouping colleagues from the pre-war period and resuming business.
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1946
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While developing future aircraft, Dassault's private company does subcontract manufacturing of propellers and other components. Dassault is pragmatic: he halts the MD 1020 program when similar medium-range twins are announced by the state-supported Sud-Est and Sud-Ouest.
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BLOCH BECOMES DASSAULT
At the close of World War II and at the age of 53, Marcel Bloch changed his name to Marcel Dassault. He seldom commented on this change, but was said to have taken the name Dassault in honor of his brother, Darius-Paul, a hero of the French resistance, whose code name was "the tank"—or, in France, char d'assault. |
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