[Col Bruggy]

Originally Posted by Snautzer

1. RAF 601 Squadron Pilots April 1942 https://www.ebay.com/itm/RAF-601-Squ...gAAOSwZuRZ2oqx
2. RAF 603 Squadron Pilots April 1942 https://www.ebay.com/itm/RAF-603-Squ...IAAOSwAj5Z2oqu
3. First Batch of Lend-Lease F4U Corsair Fighters for the Royal Navy https://www.ebay.com/itm/First-Batch...EAAOSwB4BaEfeF

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JT108 "7C"

70 Chance Vought F4U-1 Corsair I ordered under contract No.a(S)198 & requisition No.N-2, and numbered JT100 to JT169. BuAer Nos.18122 to 18191. 'Birdcage-type' canopy. (2,000hp Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp R-2800-8)

JT108

Delivered Roosevelt Field 16.5.43.
1835 Sqn Quonset Point .8.43 - 11.43.
732 Sqn Brunswick .1.44
Port oleo snapped when landing with unlocked tailwheel, Cat X1 20.5.44 (S/L W A Hardy).
Reverse Lease-Lend as Bu18130.
USNAS Norfolk 8.45.

See:
Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945
Sturtivant,Ray with Mick Burrow
Tunbridge Wells:Air-Britain,1995.
p.450

Col.