Foreign Air Supply Company

The Foreign Air Supply Company (compagnie étrangère de ravitaillement par air) (C.E.R.A.) was an air supply unit of the French Foreign Legion. It provided air delivery of supplies during the First Indochina War.

From October 1948, the Compagnie de Ravitaillement Par Air des Troupes Françaises d’Indochine Nord was assigned to the 1er RCP; then was renamed CRA de la Base Aéroportée Nord (CRA/BAPN) on January 1, 1949.

The company was created on January 1, 1951 from the Air Supply Company (CRA/BAPN). Stationed at Hanoi until 1 August, the foreign combat company was in charge of delivering logistical supply and was manned by 120 legionnaires and 70 autochthones.

Dissolved, the foreign combat company became on September 1, 1951, the Air Supply Company of the Land Forces of North Vietam (CRA/FTNV). It then became CRA 3 in 1953.