In the mid-1930s the world's air forces were discarding their biplanes and acquiring all-metal monoplane aircraft in front line service. The United States Navy was no exception. American naval aircraft for shore-based use, as well as floatplanes and carrier aircraft, underwent a similar type of development as their counterparts in the Army. By 1935, prototypes were being produced to replace the Navy's biplane fighters. This would result in the F2A Buffalo, a product of the new Brewster Aeronautical Corporation. This fighter would gain an unfavorable reputation in the historiography of the Second World War, but in fact saw very little service with the Americans, in whose squadrons it was replaced by the Grumman F4F Wildcat shortly after the Pearl Harbor.
Sources:
Brewster Buffalo Christopher Shores
Brewster F2A Buffalo Andre Zbiegniewski
Brewster F2A Buffalo Aces of World War 2 by Kari Stenman and Andrew Thomas
Some data from Globalsecurity.org and Wikipedia
17 мар 2021
