List of A-20 Havoc operators
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List of A-20 Havoc operators identifies the country, military service, and unit that has been supplied or purchased A-20s.
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Operators
Australia
Brazil
- Brazilian Air Force 31 aircraft, 30 A-20K and 1 A-20C
Canada
France
Japan
Japanese forces captured a few Dutch aircraft in Java.
Netherlands
New Zealand
Poland
South Africa
Soviet Union
The USSR received 2,908 Douglas twin-engined attack aircraft; more than one in three Havocs produced. The Soviet Air Force (VVS) often modified the aircraft using Soviet gun turrets and armament.
Nearly every anti-shipping aircraft in the Soviet Naval Air Service was a Havoc A-20G fitted to drop torpedoes and mines.[2]
In one surprising instance, a Havoc was shot down by the Luftwaffe over the Gulf of Finland and it was discovered that the gunner was a woman. Women primarily appeared in the Soviet Air Force in three official regiments but a few served alongside men in otherwise all-male units.[3]
United Kingdom
- No. 13 Squadron RAF
- No. 14 Squadron RAF
- No. 18 Squadron RAF
- No. 23 Squadron RAF
- No. 55 Squadron RAF
- No. 85 Squadron RAF
- No. 88 Squadron RAF
- No. 93 Squadron RAF
- No. 107 Squadron RAF
- No. 114 Squadron RAF
- No. 226 Squadron RAF
- No. 342 Squadron RAF
- No. 418 Squadron RCAF
- No. 530 Squadron RAF
- No. 531 Squadron RAF
- No. 532 Squadron RAF
- No. 533 Squadron RAF
- No. 534 Squadron RAF
- No. 535 Squadron RAF
- No. 536 Squadron RAF
- No. 537 Squadron RAF
- No. 538 Squadron RAF
- No. 539 Squadron RAF
- No. 605 Squadron RAF
United States
- United States Army Air Corps
- United States Army Air Forces
- United States Marine Corps
- United States Navy
References
- ^ "A28 Douglas Boston". RAAF Museum. 2007. http://www.airforce.gov.au/RAAFMuseum/research/aircraft/series2/A28.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ [http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sterlikov/index.htm Lend-Lease on airforce.ru. Conversation with the maintenance chief of an A-20G Boston of the 51st MTAP (Mine-Torpedo Air Regiment), Nikolay Alekseevich Sterlikov (regiment commander's aircraft, serial number 43-10067, tail number 51) Moscow, 29 December 2002]
- ^ Hardesty, Von (1991). "At Full Stride". Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power 1941-1945. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 193. ISBN 0874745101. "...over the Gulf of Finland on May 5, 1943, when the Luftwaffe downed a Lend-Lease Havoc A-20, the Germans were considerably shocked to discover that the three-member crew included a woman—a gunner."
- ^ Thetford, Owen (1957). Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-57 (1st edition ed.). London: Putnam.
- ^ "RAF Fighter Command Index". http://www.rafcommands.com/Fighter/indexF.html. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
- ^ "RAF Bomber Command Index". http://www.rafcommands.com/Bomber/88B.html. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
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