1941-05-10 — Page 7

Second Section

Hongkong Telegraph.

Magazine Features

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1941.

AMERICAN

FIGHTERS

IN MALAYAN SKIES

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(Top left) A typical fighter pilot in the cockpit of a Buffalo. (Above) Swinging a Buffalo fuselage, just uncrated, into the hangar for assembly, (Right) R.A.F. mechanics in one of the workshops.

(Left) Part of the assembly lines at an R.A.F. station. (Lower left) A line-up of Blenheim bombers with Buffaloes in the background. (Lower right) Three Buffalo fighters in the air.

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Recently arrived in Singapore. since assembled and now in the air over Malaya are large num- bers of Brewster Buffaloes, high- speed American fighter planes. The men to fly them came from England experienced fighter pilots, one of whom has downed ten Nazi planes. Photos,on this page, the first to be released of the now Far Eastern air strength, show some of the first assembled Buffaloes at an R.A.F. station and

in the air.