World's Worst Fighter Aircraft, The 1941 RAAF Brewster Buffalo !

Built in New Jersey in the USA in a failed bid to win a USA Navy Contract to supply Carrier Fighters, in early 1941, both the Finnish Government & the British Government Purchasing Commission were DESPERATE for Fighters, and the British got their orders in first, so the RAF got all the Carrier-Fighters, whereas the Finnish Air Force got the Land-Based Fighter Versions, and they apparently (?) arrived with Gun-Mountings which didn't fracture with normal usage, and Ungreased Ammunition, & maybe the bigger Engines, which arrived with the Buffalo Replacements that showed up in Australia, after the fall of Singapore.

The "One, Inevitable, Allowable Error" in the Narrative shows up at 14:57, when I said "Engine-Mounts"...; whereas I should have said "Gun Mounts"...., mea culpa

Squafron Leader John Balfe AFC was born in Tasmania in 1912. He was a journalist, representing The Melbourne Argus & Sydney Morning Herald, stationed in Darwin before WW-2. Balfe held a Pilot's Licence frim 1934 to 1952, logged a total of 5,000 Flying Hours, he was a Pilot in the RAAF Reserve prior to WW-2. He spent it's first year in the Army serving in Darwin as a Captain.
Before the first Japanese Raid on Darwin in February 1942, Balfe returned to the Air Force. He served in it for the next 8 years.

War Without Glory
C. John D. Balfe 1984.

Macmillan. Melbourne. Australia.

ISBN 0 333 35677 2.

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