Brewster Buffalo Series Pt 9: Malaya-Singapore Pt 1
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2023
- This video begins a new chapter which covers the career of the export versions of the Buffalo that fought in the colonial possessions of the British and Dutch empires in the first part of the Pacific War. We begin with the story of the air defense of Malaya and Singapore, which relied on the RAF, RAAF, and RNZAF airmen of four squadrons using the Buffalo. This video sets the stage for the campaign, examining the formation of the Far Eastern Command's fighter arm and some of the larger defense organization that it was part of, as well as some specific problems with the aircraft and the Allied militaries involved, as well as a brief survey of the weapons of their Japanese adversaries.
Source Material:
Singapore at War! - Bob Hackett:
www.combinedfleet.com/Singapor...
Buffaloes over Singapore - Brian Cull
Brewster F2A Buffalo Aces of World War Two - Kari Stenman and Andrew Thomas
Aircraft Profile 217: The Brewster Buffalo - Christopher Shores
Royal Air Force 1939-1945, Vol II The Fight Avails - Denis Richards and Hilary St.G Saunders:
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/U...
Of all the sites discussing the Buffalo your presentation is by far superior. Great research Mark, keep up the good work mate!
You've blessed us yet again. Keep it up, your work is top notch!!
Thanks, that's really very kind of you!
Outstanding video , looking forward to more !
Thank you very much!
Very well done.
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Thanks for saying that, sir
I think the reason we are so fascinated with the early Pacific war is that it is very like a war game scenario up until and maybe including Coral Sea. All the pieces are on the board and major reinforcement impulse is many turns away. The only differences can be how you deploy your chits and what random chance cards you pull. Coral Sea was May 4, 1942 - May 8, 1942. Corregidor surrendered on May 6, 1942 and hostilities on Mindanao came to an end after that.
That's well said. I would add the period up to Eastern Solomons. Until then the US and Japan are pretty evenly matched, and interesting things happen
Keep up the good work 😊
Thank you sir
Thank you for a great video .
Thanks for watching it!
Again, great vid Mr. 7. The circumstances for the military disaster in Malaya and at Singapore and immediately after (of the 40+ evacuation ships that set out from Singapore in the final days only 1 or 2 escaped the IJN blockade) were engendered in Government halls in London months, years and perhaps decades prior. In Dec 1941 Britain had been at war for 25 months. Britain's priority theaters were air and territorial defense of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic keeping shipping lanes to Britain viable (these were inviolate). The North African and Mediterranean campaigns (really defense of ME Oil and shipping lanes to and from India), and the Arctic convoys to keep the USSR in the war. Whatever was or wasn't happening or might happen in the Far East was a distant 4th. Not only was this evidenced by the allocation of military resources but in the allocation of effective (or ineffective) military and civilian leadership. Percival was ground forces commander in Malaya and there were more or less equivalent Air and Naval commanders as well as several higher echelon commanders. Combine this with Percival also being an incompetent General (or not really a general at all but rather a torture i.e., his time in Ireland) failure in the Far East was inevitable.
True. Had there been a competent commander, the japanese bluff at Singapore would have been called and their campaign would have suffered a humiliating collapse. In bigger picture they would have still taken Singapore in a few months time, but with much more effort and trouble.
Great information on a very underrated aviation subject and excellent overview/ tutorial on a part of WWII most Americans are unaware of or only partly aware of. Keep up the great work! Always interested in any subject you cover. A great series of books written on the subject is Bloody Shambles by Christopher Shores, an excellent resource.
Thank you very much for the kind words and the recommendation! I really enjoy finding some of the lesser-known stories that deserve to be more widely known
Excellent video.
Thanks for saying that
How can this excellent channel have too low of a number of subs?
More Buffalo please!
No contest against the .mitsubishi Zero.