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Buffaloes Over Singapore: RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Dutch Brewster Fighters in Action Over Malaya and the East Indies 1941-1942

par Brian Cull

Autres auteurs: Geoff Fisken (Avant-propos), Mark Haselden (Auteur), Paul Sortehaug (Auteur)

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The Brewster B-339 Buffalo received much criticism during its brief service with the RAF, some justified, some not. Some of the pilots who eventually flew it in combat were happy with their mounts, others hated it as an operational fighter. Rightly considered below par for service in the UK, the vast majority of the 170 aircraft acquired by the RAF Purchasing Commission from the United States was diverted for use in the Far East, where it was believed they would be superior to any Japanese aircraft encountered should hostilities break out there. This assessment was to prove tragically very incorrect. When war did erupt, the Japanese Army Air Force - with its highly maneuverable Ki-27 and Ki-43 fighters - and the Japanese Navy Air Force equipped with the mighty A6M Zero, proved vastly superior in just about all aspects, and many of the Japanese fighter pilots were veterans of the war against China. By contrast, the majority of the young British, New Zealand, and Australian pilots who flew the Buffalo on operations in Malaya and at Singapore were little more than trainees, and many flew into battle with only the basic training of their trade. Nonetheless, these fledgling fighter pilots achieved much greater success than could have been anticipated, although many paid with their lives. This is their story, complete with appendices and previously unpublished source material and photographs.… (plus d'informations)
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This work has the usual set of characteristics one finds in a Grub Street publication. On one hand you get day-by-day coverage of events and unique source material. On the other you wish that there was more attention paid to editing and documentary apparatus; the need for orders of battle and a better index particularly come to mind. Some of the sources are a little dubious too, such as accepting the claim from Peter Elphick's controversial "Singapore: The Pregnable Fortress" that there were German officers serving in the Imperial Japanese Army; oh really? It makes one wonder why Louis Allen's "Singapore" or Bayly & Harper's "Forgotten Armies" aren't included in the sources.

That said, this is a great story that I really enjoyed reading, as a band of mostly Aussie and Kiwi pilots find themselves stuck with the impossible task of defending the propaganda mirage of Fortress Singapore against the Japanese military at its peak, in obsolete equipment, while led by the indifferent cast-offs of the British military. If you want a telling anecdote there is the case of Pilot Officer Tom Watson, RCAF who apparently flew the last Brewster Buffalo out of Singapore, and for his trouble was "reprimanded...for flying an airplane on which I had not officially been checked out." Even if you start to wonder if the authors are laying on the varnish of Commonwealth lions being led by British donkeys a little too thick, there is no lack of documented incompetance at Singapore not to make you shake your head at the waste of it all. ( )
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The Brewster B-339 Buffalo received much criticism during its brief service with the RAF, some justified, some not. Some of the pilots who eventually flew it in combat were happy with their mounts, others hated it as an operational fighter. Rightly considered below par for service in the UK, the vast majority of the 170 aircraft acquired by the RAF Purchasing Commission from the United States was diverted for use in the Far East, where it was believed they would be superior to any Japanese aircraft encountered should hostilities break out there. This assessment was to prove tragically very incorrect. When war did erupt, the Japanese Army Air Force - with its highly maneuverable Ki-27 and Ki-43 fighters - and the Japanese Navy Air Force equipped with the mighty A6M Zero, proved vastly superior in just about all aspects, and many of the Japanese fighter pilots were veterans of the war against China. By contrast, the majority of the young British, New Zealand, and Australian pilots who flew the Buffalo on operations in Malaya and at Singapore were little more than trainees, and many flew into battle with only the basic training of their trade. Nonetheless, these fledgling fighter pilots achieved much greater success than could have been anticipated, although many paid with their lives. This is their story, complete with appendices and previously unpublished source material and photographs.

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