Thanks Mike,
Dutch ones are in the pipeline
regards
Lauhof
In 1940, when the Dutch government was in London, they desperately tried to obtain aircraft so they went to Grumman to buy the F3F's early versions. most of them were send to the Dutch Indies. The Dutch Navy (MLD) organised a bomber-fighter squadron with the F3F-1A's. They were stationed at Morokrembangan at Java, some of the planes were evacuated to Australia. The F3F-1's were send to the ML-KNil squadrons, the one showing here kept fighting at the west of Borneo until end of 1943 and later on moved to New Guinea. It wears already the authentic dutch roundel
regards
Lauhof
Hello Lauhof,
I've been out of touch with the "whiff" sites and just got back to them today. Like very much your Dutch F3F's Interesting color scheme on the DWIAF example What was the inspiration for that one? Do you think that some of these birds might migrate down to Mexico, Central and South America too?
Regards,
CPT Mike
Thanks Mike for the compliment, couldn't point out your DWIAF -notification - do you mean the jewish raf here or the IAF ones from 'Profiles & GCI'. Maybe you could be more specific on it so i know what you like for the south-american subject.
regards
Lauhof
Sorry Lauhof, I got that DWIAF-thing all screwed up
I meant to abbreviate Dutch East Indies Air Force :) As for the South American F3F's - say, perhaps, Brazil and Argentina. And while not "South America", I was also thinking Mexico.
As always, looking forward to your next series of excellent profiles...
Best regards,
CPT Mike