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unusual facts about Fokker T.II


Fokker T.II

The air power enthusiast General Billy Mitchell visited the Fokker works at Veere in early 1922 and General Clayton Bissell, travelling with him was encouraged by Fokker to fly the T.II.


Fokker T.III

Another F.III was crated out but when the remaining three left Schellingwoude one of them, with its crew of two, was lost in fog over the sea near Brest, Fance.

Fokker T.V

By the end of the first day of fighting only two T.Vs were servicible, being sent against bridges over the River Maas at Rotterdam on 11 May, where a further aircraft was shot down, with the final T.V being shot down during attacks on bridges at Moerdijk on 13 May.

It was modern for its time, but by the German invasion of 1940, it was outclassed by the airplanes of the Luftwaffe.


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