/Airplanes/Allies/Others/03-Belgium/B-339Buffalo/B-339Buffalo.htm / | Up-dated: 11-09-2016

 

None of the 40 ordered Buffalos reached Belgium because the beginning of the WW2.
Dartmouth, Halifax, Canada, June 1940. It was shipped by HMS Furious from Canada to Burtonwood, UK, delivered to RAF assumed with serial AX816.

 

 


 

Belgian Government ordered 40 Brewster B-339 Buffalo fighters in the USA in February 1940, but only three (included depicted here, later it was captured by Germans) reached the French port of Bordeaux. Another six were on their way aboard the French carrier Bearn, but they didn't get further than the French Caribbean island of Martinique and later destroyed by Allied agents to prevent them from falling into Axis hands.

 

 

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