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Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo VF-3 coded black 18 onboard USS Saratoga 1941

Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo VF-3 coded white 7 onboard USS Saratoga 1941

Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo VF-3 coded 3-F-8 Black 8 onboard USS Saratoga 1941

Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo VF-3 coded 3-F-13 Black 13 landing incident USS Saratoga 1941

On 19 March 1940 U.S. Navy Lt. John Smith "Jimmy" Thach tipped this Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo (BuNo 1393) onto its nose on the flight deck of the circraft carrier USS Saratoga [CV-3) Ensign Edward Butch O'Hare also flew this aircraft several times during the summer and fall of 1940.

Battle Midway

IL-2 Sturmovik 'Cliff's of Dover' - CLOD/COD has no 3D model yet !
 
IL-2 Battle of Moscow and Battle of Stalingrad
They have this aircraft now available but the skins are in dds format which is too large for me to host at this stage!
IL2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles (FB), Ace Expansion Pack (AEP), Pacific Fighters (PF), 1946 skins
  IL2 game skin by IM F2A-2 VF-3 3-F-7 USS Saratoga 1941
  IL2 game skin by IM F2A-2 VF-3 3-F-7 USS Saratoga 1941 V0A

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    Magazine References: +

  • Airfix Magazines (English) - http://www.airfix.com/
  • Avions (French) - http://www.aerostories.org/~aerobiblio/rubrique10.html
  • FlyPast (English) - http://www.flypast.com/
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  • Flugzeug Classic (German) - http://www.flugzeugclassic.de/
  • Klassiker (German) - http://shop.flugrevue.de/abo/klassiker-der-luftfahrt
  • Le Fana de L'Aviation (French) - http://boutique.editions-lariviere.fr/site/abonnement-le-fana-de-l-aviation-626-4-6.html
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  • Osprey (English) - http://www.ospreypublishing.com/
  • Revi Magazines (Czech) - http://www.revi.cz/

    Web References: +

  • History of RAF Organisation: http://www.rafweb.org
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This webpage was updated 14th January 2017