By Dan Hagedorn, Leif Hellstrom

After WWII, titanic quantities of surplus US army plane have been exported to allies everywhere in the international. The B-26 Invader is a kind of planes that chanced on a brand new rent on lifestyles after US army use. principally exported to nations in Latin the United States together with Colombia, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras, the B-26 Invader observed large use by way of the French in Indochina and Algeria and via Portugal in Africa. different countries reciving the bomber are Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, South Vietnam, Turkey, and different nations. There also are sections in regards to the B-26 in use in covert missions by means of the CIA in Africa, Cuba and Southeast Asia. The e-book is split via bankruptcy in accordance with state or CIA operation. The ebook is stuffed with first-class images, a few infrequent and the wrestle histories of the plane use.

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Returned to the USAF. Later to AA in Europe. 1/91? (Y). Returned to the USAF. Became N74833. Still flying in 1992. I/19 (G). Returned to the USAF. Became N6838D and later C-FMSB. On display at Travis AFB in 1990. No known unit service. Returned to the USAF. SOC late 1950s and scrapped. 1/91 (E). Returned to the USAF. Became N8032E. Scrapped in early 1970s. No known unit service. Returned to the USAF. SOC late 1950s and scrapped. I/91 (G and R). Returned to the USAF. SOC late 1950s. Became N8030E.

SHAA ref. B79 2984 via A. Grandolini Each squadron had a coat of arms which was often carried on the nose of the aircraft. 79 unit insignia dating back to the First World War. With the exception of the names carried by four of the RB-26Cs, individual markings were seldom if ever applied to the Invaders in Indochina. 'Air, Paris. The 'Remarks' column include details of unit service, as far as possible in chronological order. Due to space limitations, only the last letter in the call-sign has been given.

The different style fuselage roundel on the aircraft in the background is also noteworthy. B. Chene! 10/951 set up La Reghaia to co-ordinate all air defence efforts. It was soon discovered that the MD-315R was too slow and had too short a range for the task at hand, and in early 1961 it was therefore decided to convert a small number of Invaders into night fighters, known asB-26Ns. As with the RB-26P and the B-26APQ13, the modification work was carried out by VAT, the prototype (41-39579) being completed in January 1961.

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