Your Hurri a Dutch Hurri?

Additional info:
In 1941, the Dutch East Indies Air Force ordered twelve Hurricanes, but they were not delivered because there was a shortage of powerplants. In late 1941, a total of 24 Hurricane Mk Is on route to Singapore for the Royal Air Force (RAF) were delivered in crates to Tjililitan at Jave for use by tbe Dutch East Indies Air Force. They had no radio equipment and no oxygen equipment. On 16 February 1942, they were flown to Kalidjati, where they were probably serialed (1 to 24?) and a red – white – blue flag was painted on the tail at Ngoro. Of the two squadrons of the Java Air Force, one squadron defended Batavia.

Operational Use
Two Hurricanes were destroyed during training. The Hurricane flown by pilot Hamming touched the ground with the propellor and the other, flown by sergeant Hermans, crashed during landing. On 21 February 1942, eight Hurricanes were surprised during their landing at Kalidjati by Japanese Nakajima Ki.43 Hayabusa (Oscar) fighters. Sergeant Jacobs turned up in a bombcrater, but two of the Hurricanes escaped to Tjikampek. On 26 February 1942, the last seven Hurricanes flew to Ngoro and on 1 March 1942 the Hurricanes attacked the invading Japanese landingcraft at Bantam Bay and Kretan. One Hurricane, flown by lieutenant Bruinler, touched a boat with the propellor, but reached Ngoro safe. Lieutenant Marinus escaped to Soerakarta, but his Hurricane crashed the following morning, whereby the pilot escaped safely. Vaandrig (pilot) Vink flew to Banjoermas. On 9 March 1942, the six remaining Hurricanes were set on fire by their crews at Ngoro.

Combat Record
The fighting at the beginning of the war in the Pacific had created a surplus of RAF pilots in the Far East, because many aircraft were lost without their pilots, and there was resentment at the handing over of the Hurricanes to the Dutch, whose pilots were less combat skilled. But, in two weeks, the Dutch Hurricanes destroyed or damaged thirty Japanese aircraft, for the loss of 18 to 20 Hurricanes.
There are no photographs of the Hurricane in Dutch service.

Source:
Ruud Deurenberg, 16 September 2000

very nice to see, and so much to be looking forward to. :rolleyes:

F16 attacks; another example

I remember when i was a crewchief with 315Sq RNLAF on Twenthe Airbase in 1986-88, that a F16 from 313 Sq lost a practise bomb while getting into the circuit that went into a shopping mall in one of the towns close by.
It made a nice hole smack in the middle of a concrete tile in the passageway 🙂
Offcourse the SQ Co and Base Co were not amused, neither were the retailers in the mall. :p

cmon guys.. the uhu is fake, the jap is just a model… pay attention! 😡

Hi, looking at the Zuider Zee in the Netherlands while writing this..
As early as 1928 the Zuiderzee was closed off from the North Sea with a dam, and turned into a swee****er basin.
Today the Zuider Zee consists as the closed off swee****er drain of the Ijssel river, now named Ijsselmeer, and the dregded new land named Flevoland, a new province in the Netherlands. Narrow and long strechted lakes are in open connection with the IJsselmeer around the Flevopolder
Many recoveries were done in 50’s and 60′ and 70’s after the dredged land of the first the Northwest part , then South western part of the Flevopolder were cultivated for farming and the building of urban area’s Lelystad, Almere and Zeewolde.

In the nineties the last finds were dine in the waters of the Ijsselmeer. I will look for some internet sites of finds for you later.

Bert

Youre right, I remember now that part of the debate was why they waited so long after being confronted with types like the p51 and p47 that really made a difference.