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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36113 to RAF as ET759.
To SAAF as 5009.
Crashed at Isipingo on the 19th of June 1944.

 

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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36114 to RAF as ET760.
To SAAF as 5013.
Crashed at Umbumbilo on the 1st of November 1943.

 

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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36167 was to have gone to RAF as ET813, remained in USA and condemned crash at sea on the 5th of October 1944.

 

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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36213 to RAF as Kittyhawk IA ET859.
SOC on the 1st of July 1943.

 

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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36313 to RAF as Kittyhawk IA ET959.
Lost at sea enroute to Middle East when SS Stanbank was sunk by U103.

 

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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36413 to RAF as Kittyhawk IA EV159.
SOC on the 1st of February 1944.

 

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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36513 to China on the 14th of May 1942.

 

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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36613 to RAF as Kittyhawk IA EV359.
SOC on the 1st of February 1944.

 

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Lockheed A-29-LO Hudson 41-37013 to RAF as FH212 then to Australia as A16-234.
Lost in Arafura Sea in flight from Darwin on the 30th of July 1942 while with 2 Sqdn.

 

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Lockheed A-29-LO Hudson 41-37113 to RAF as Hudson IIIA FH312.
Flew into ground during storm at Luagundi on the 2nd of August 1942.

 

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Lockheed A-29-LO Hudson 41-37114 to RAF as Hudson IIIA FH313.
SOC on the 22nd of February 1945.

 

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Lockheed A-29A-LO Hudson 41-37213 to RAF as Hudson IIIA FH412 but NTU, then to RNZAF as NZ2079 on the 17th of June1942.
Converted to C-63 transport 1944.
WFU by Jun 1945.
Loaned to Union Airways and registered as ZK-AHY.
Returned to RNZAF in 1947, SOC and broken up May 1949

 

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Lockheed A-29A-LO Hudson 41-37214 to RAF as Hudson IIIA FH413 but NTU, then to RNZAF as NZ2080 on the 17th of June 1942.
To instructional airframe INST115 in November 1946 at RNZAF base, Wigram.
SOC in May 1949.

 

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Douglas C-54 Skymaster 41-37313 to US Navy as BuNo 39147.

 

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Douglas C-47-DL 41-38613 to USAAF Aug 21, 1942. 45th Troop Carrier Squadron, 316th Troop Carrier Group, Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA, in September 1942. Del Valle AAB, Austin, TX, on the the 29th of September 1942.
Mobile Air Depot, Brookley Field, Mobile, AL, on the 10th of November 1942. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic/African route departing Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL, on the 16th of November 1942. Routed via Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Waller Field, Valencia, Trinidad; e Caes Field, Belém, Brazil, on the 19th of November 1942; Panamirim Field, Natal, Brazil, on the 20th of November 1942; Ascension Island, on the 21st of November 1942; Accra, Coast on the 22nd of November 1942; Kano and Maiduguri, Nigeria; Khartoum, Sudan to Heliopolis, Cairo. Moascar AAB, Ismailia, on the 25th of November 1942. Ninth Air Force, North Africa.
Crashed 2 mi S of Chowdhurani, India on the 18th of April 1944.
Condemned on the 21st of April 1944.

 

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Douglas C-47-DL 41-38713 to USAAF on the 24th of December 1942 - 5th AF "Oregon Caveman" N°1 RAAF 16Mar43 previously A30-15 registered A65-1. VH-DAA 3 AD on the 11th of February 1943. 36 Sqn RAAF on the 21st of February 1943. VH-CTA DAT on the 11th of May 1943. ANA on the 23rd of June 1943. 36 Sqn RAAF on the 23rd June 1943 coded RE-D named "The Arunta". ANA on the 2nd of July 1943. 36 Sqn RAAF on the 20th of September 1943. ANA on the 13th of October 1943. 36 Sqn RAAF on the 23rd of October 1943. ANA on the 1st of December 1943. 36 Sqn RAAF on the 14th of December 1943. ANA on the 13th of January 1944. 36 Sqn RAAF on the 5th of February 1944. Bearer bolts on port engine gave way, engine sagged, propeller windmilling, landed safely Cairns FNQ on the 25th of March 1944, pilot P/O B Starkey ANA on the 24th of November 1944. 36 Sqn RAAF on the 5th of March 1945. 12 RSU on the 18th of May 1945. 36 Sqn RAAF on the 26th of May 1945. ANA on the 19th of August 1945. 1 CU on the 16th of October 1946.
Sold to ANA for £1000 on the 21st of October 1946.
VH-ANA ANA Yana on the 10th of June 1953.
F-OANH Air Outremer 1953 Cie DE US Transport Aerien et DE US Commerce.
Destroyed on the 4th of March 1954 Gia Lam Hanoi sabotage.

 

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Douglas C-47-DL 41-38813 to RAF as Argus I EV749 (HM213 subsequently allocated but NTU). SOC on the 24th of September 1945.

 

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Photo: Keith Rieger Sr.