Curtiss-Wright CW-21

[cardboard_killer]

[80 years ago today] "• Japanese aircraft bomb the CAMCO factory at Loiwing, China, destroying recently arrived Curtiss-Wright CW-21 fighters in their crates. Designed as a high altitude interceptor with a faster rate of climb than the Nakajima Ki-27 and Mitsubishi A6M2, this bombing delays local production and the aircraft will not see operational use before the Japanese overrun Loiwing in 1942. The Dutch will operate 24 improved CW-21Bs in the East Indies. "

 

[Heliopause]

By the time of the surrender off the Dutch East Indies on March 9th '42 only 3 Curtiss-Wrights remained operational.

Operating from a road (used as a temporary airstrip) south of Bandung, Java.

A good climber but often outnumbered and warned too late of incoming e/a.

 

Edited November 8, 2020 by Heliopause