/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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