Hello Dave
52 B-26As were delivered to the Royal Air Force under the name Marauder Mk. I. Their RAF serials were FK109 to FK160. The first three Marauder Mk. Is for the RAF were ferried across the Atlantic late in 1941. Most of them went to the Middle East in 1942 for service in Egypt in an attempt to defend the Suez Canal against the advance of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps.
The Marauder Mk. IA was the designation given to nineteen B-26Bs which had been delivered to the RAF. Their RAF serials were FK362/FK380. FK372 and FK380 crashed in the USA before delivery.
The RAF received 123 B-26C-30-MOs under the designation Marauder Mk. II. Serials were FB400 through FB522. 100 of them (FB418 through FB517) were delivered to the South African Air Force, and formed the initial equipment of Nos. 12, 21, 24, 25, and 30 Squadrons. As part of the Desert Air Force, they supported the Allied force in the invasion of Italy.
British Lend-Lease contracts included 100 B-26F-2, 100 B-26F-6, 75 B-26G-11 and 75 B-26G-21 aircraft in 1944 as the Marauder Mk. III. RAF serials were HD402 to HD751. These aircraft re-equipped Nos. 14 and 39 Squadrons of the RAF and Nos. 12, 21, 24, 25 and 30 Squadrons of the South African Air Force. As part of the Desert Air Force, the South African units supported the Allied forces invading Italy.
Therefore I would say your Marauder is FK375, a Marauder IA
no idea on the Hurricane, though.
Cordially
Martin
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