The RAF had many Dutch pilots, enough to form a pair of squadrons 320 Bombardment equipped with B-25s and 322 Fighter equipped with Spitfires, after the war these units formed the core of the new Royal Force. Dutch Air (Koninklijke Luchtmacht)
The Spitfire was the standardized fighter in 1946 and for several years, in Europe, because the Dutch Air Force was divided into two sections, the Colonial, with P-40 and P-51 and which fought in the Pacific, and the European with Spitfires.
Unlike other European countries that no longer saw combat after 1945, the Dutch sent their units to fight in the East Indies, until the independence of Indonesia, so this unit of Spitfires was heavily involved in the fighting.
The model represents a Spitfire from Squadron 322 (322e Jachtvliegtuig Afdeling), the new unit that resumed the traditions of the Three White Mice Squadron, destroyed at the beginning of World War II, the model is by Necomisa, somewhat modified, the painting is El Viejo Marino (Ye Olde Seaman), all the decoration by brush.
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