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Old 17th July 2008, 11:26
Mirek Wawrzynski Mirek Wawrzynski is offline
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Re: Belgian Hurricanes

Hi
Some about the fate of Belgian Hurricanes you may see and check in my book: Hurricanes in Foreign Service, printed in Poland in 2001. The first chapter pp. 3-8 is focused exacly about this - Belgian Hurricanes 1939-1940. There are 15 b&w photos of them too.

The main text is in Polish, but there is at the end of it quite long English summary - p. 59-64.
I have see on the web scanned it a few years ago, but I do not remeber exactly where, the English summary was also put in one web aviation forum too later, when disccution about foreign Hurricanes had began.

Regards,
Mirek Wawrzyński,
an author of Hurricane in Foreign Service (Hurricane w obcej służbie)

PS
3 Belgian survived first early German air attack (2 servicable took off shortly before air attack + 1 damaged later - was flyable: H-23 + H-?? + H-29) of 11 servicable on 10 V. Next day they were finnished on the second airfiled about 16.30 by Me 109s of I/JG 27.

If I am right rember H-42 was not yet put on the inventory of Belgian squadron. He was standing still separatly to the rest unit. It was the first one produced under British licence in Belgium.
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