ANNALS OF THE BREWSTER BUFFALO

Nearly ten years after she was recovered from a lake in Russian Karelia, and nearly four years after she reached the United States, the Finnish Air Force Brewster fighter has gone on museum display--back home in Finland! The Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida, has sent the plane to the Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo (Aviation Museum of Central Finland), where she'll be restored over a period of three or four years, with the work visible through a view window. Here's a treasure trove of detail views on a Finnish message board.

Another nice turn of events: Dutchprofile has a bilingual book about the Brewster 399D scheduled for publication. This is the plane that served with the Dutch colonial air force in the Indies (now Indonesia) in the early months of 1942. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

In Finnish service

• Photos of Brewsters in Finnish Air Force service
• First combat in a Brewster fighter (Heimo Lampi)
• Finland's home-built "Humu" copy of the Buffalo
• Robert Winston and the Finnish Brewsters (Jarmo Lindberg)
• Air-to-air victories attributed to Finnish Brewster pilots
• Finnish aces (Brewsterwise & otherwise)
• Finland copied Browning mgs for its fighters
• The Brewster 239 in Finnish service (Jukka Raustia)
• Notes from Double Fighter Knight
• Lentolaivue 24: the Brewster vs. the Red Air Force

In British Commonwealth service

• Differences between the F2A-2 and the British B-339s
• A British Buffalo undergoing flight test in Pennsylvania
• Pilot's Notes: The Buffalo I Aeroplane (downloadable manual)
• British pilots critique the Buffalo | What Eric Brown thought
• 805 Squadron in the defense of Crete
• The Buffalo pilots of Southeast Asia
• 'The performance of some aircraft was pathetic'
• The 'secret report': how the Buffaloes fared in Malaya
• The war in Malaya: Sergeant Buntain's diary
• Sam Case's scrapbook: Singapore | Rangoon I | Rangoon II
• Geoff Fisken: New Zealand Buffalo ace
• Colin Pinckney: British Buffalo ace
• Vic Bargh flies a Buffalo over Rangoon
• "What Odds They Faced in Burma's Sky!" (wartime feature)
• Notable Commonwealth Buffalo pilots (Santiago Flores)
• Bingham-Wallis defends the Buffalo
• Buffaloes Over Singapore (Brian Cull et al)

In U.S. service

• 'Head on at Midway' - the U.S. Marines go to war
• Meet Holly Hills, Buffalo pilot (among other types)
• 'A real dinger' - Gordon Firebaugh remembers
• Pappy Boyington and the Buffalo
• Problems with the F2A-3 self-sealing fuel tanks
• Records of the F2A-1 in U.S. Navy service
• The F2A-2 Buffalos--Bureau numbers & deposition

In Dutch (and Japanese) service

• A history of the Brewsters in Dutch service (Gerard Casius)
• A Dutch Buffalo joins the U.S. Army
• Notable Dutch Buffalo pilots (Santiago Flores)
• Dutch prisoners of war: the Japanese Buffs

Brewster ghosts

• BW-372, back home in Finland!
• Some Buffalo bits in Holland
• Midway Atoll: looking for the wrecks
• Looking for Harry Griffiths's Buffalo
• Is this the wreckage of A51-006?
• Brewster Buccaneer under restoration
• 'End nears for a plant that made flying junk'
• Stock certificate from Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
• Brewster worker's badge from Johnsville, Pa.
• The Brewster name lives again! (William Dougherty)

Brewster Aeronautical and other resources

• The Brewster Buffalo Store
• "The Sorry Saga of the Brewster Buffalo" (Daniel Ford)
• A Brewster bibliography
• Buffaloes among the Kangaroos (Ralph Brading)
• Production record of the Brewster fighters (Jim Maas)
• No. 1 - 508: what happened to the planes (Jos Heyman)
• 'Naval Air Supremacy & the Buffalo' (Malcolm LeCompte)
• About that Wright Cyclone engine

For modelers

• Modeler's drawings of the XF2A-1 (kindness of Bob Clarke)
• Brewster models, kits, and plans
• Build a wartime recognition model (KAPA Kollector)

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