Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An ci gaba da aiki a cikin rundunar Sojojin Sama na Armistice, an sanya GB II/19 a cikin wani shiri bayan hare-haren Birtaniya kan Mers el-Kébir, a watan Yulin 1940. A watan Agusta na wannan shekarar, rukunin ya yi hanyar Meknes a Maroko, don kai hari Gibraltar. Bayan an soke wannan aikin, kungiyar ta koma Blida, wanda ya zama sansanin dakarun. Yayin da aka sake tsarawa, wannan ya sami wani suna a matsayin rukuni na harin bam - Groupe de Bombardement Léger I/19 a ranar 1 ga Satumba, 1940, yayin da 3rd da 4th Escadrilles suka zama 1st da 2nd Escadrilles. Ranar 23 ga watan Satumba da 25, kungiyar ta shiga hare-haren da aka kai a kan Gibraltar, sa'an nan kuma ya koma Blida. Lokacin da Allies suka sauka a Arewacin Afirka
ya faru, a watan Nuwamba 1942, kungiyar ba ta shiga ba, amma dan kadan ga juriya, wanda ya sa sojojin Vichy () zuwa Anglo-Amurkawa. An kafa shi a Rovigo, kungiyar ta jira don sake yin makamai da Allies za su yi kuma an tura shi zuwa Colomb-Béchar a farkon Janairu 1943. Rukunin ya yi dogon horo har zuwa Oktoba na wannan shekarar, lokacin da aka raba shi, an tura wasu abubuwa zuwa Constantine (1st Escadrille), sauran zuwa Sétif (2nd Escadrille).