The history of the Brewster Buffalo is sad, originally an extraordinary design that won the USN contest for the first embarked, fast, agile, and relatively well-armed fighter, was destroyed by the ineptitude of the engineers in charge of its evolution and inefficiency administrative of Brewster, which could never operate its factory as it should, not a single order was in time to be delivered, if we add to that the heavy service reports of the F2A, we will understand why the small fighter has such a bad reputation.
The Germans captured for sure, at least one Buffalo, this was the first copy of the Belgian order, packed even in a French port, where it had arrived just in time to see the fall of France, the plane was sent to Rechlin, evaluation, everything that was left of him, was this, that was photographed in 1945.
It is difficult to establish if it is the specimen captured in 1940, or one of those captured in Crete in 1941, or a Finnish specimen borrowed for some reason, perhaps a prototype of the Humu (local version of the Buffalo, made of wood and aluminum) or simply some Hack. It is difficult to be a Cretan plane, these were out of service at the time of the attack and were also damaged during combat, the Finns on the other hand were still using their Buffalos in 1945 and considered them very valuable.
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