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After the students attended the primary, basic and advanced courses there was the need to prepare them for operational service. So the Dutch decided to set up a course for operational training of fighter pilots. They asked for suitable planes from the USAAF. For this purpose they received Curtiss P40 Warhawk and Kittyhawk planes. This was the same type the Dutch East Indies no.120 Squadron was using in Australia. The operational courses were flown from Jackson Army Air Base.
The P40E, P40F and P40L planes were lent from the USAAF. The P40N planes were Dutch property and were given to the USAAF on a Reverse-Lend-Lease basis. A total of 30 P40s were used for operational training.

Serial     Arrival      Departed     Reason
           Jackson AAB  Jackson AAB

P40E-1 model:
41-24791   21-05-1943   .........?    Crashed during landing .....?

P40F and P40F-15 models:
41-13638   24-05-1943                 left for inspection 19-07-44
41-13732   18-05-1943                 left for inspection 17-11-43
41-13781   20-07-1943                 left for inspection 26-05-44
41-14012   17-05-1943                 crashed Drew Field Tampa
                                      15-09-1943.
41-14013   18-05-1943                 left for inspection 10-02-44
41-14027   17-05-1943                 left for inspection 17-07-44
41-14070   06-06-1943   06-07-1943    rtd.USAAF, Luke Airfield
41-14078   18-05-1943   28-10-1943    rtd.USAAF, Drew Field, Fla.
41-14124   17-05-1943   09-11-1943    rtd.USAAF, Olmsted Field, PA
41-14126   17-05-1943                 left for overhaul 22-03-44
41-14144   17-05-1943                 left for overhaul 14-01-44
41-14188   17-05-1943                 left for overhaul 09-12-43
41-19775   18-05-1943                 left for overhaul 01-06-44
41-19786   18-05-1943   ..........?   Crashed at Jackson 09-07-43
                                      repaired, left for overhaul
                                      16-04-1944
41-19875   20-06-1943   16-12-1943    rtd.USAAF, Tyndall Field.
41-19885   16-05-1943                 left for overhaul 23-08-43
41-19886   19-05-1943   28-10-1943    crashed 04-08-1943 Jackson
                                      in ground loop. Not repaired.
41-19948   08-07-1943   16-12-1943    rtd.USAAF, Tyndall Field

P40L-5 model:
42-10497   21-05-1943                 crashed in landing Jackson
                                      08-10-1943. repaired.
                                      left for overhaul 22-03-44.

P40N-1 and P40N-5 models:
Dutch owned and to USAAF in Reverse-Lend-Lease program.

42-104768  22-05-1943   ----------    crashed nr. Jackson AAB ..?
42-104788  26-05-1943   24-02-1944    rtd.USAAF, Selma Field
42-104808  26-05-1943   29-02-1944    damaged in landing accident
                                      06-07-1943. repaired.
                                      rtd.USAAF, Selma Field
42-104828  25-05-1943   23-02-1944    rtd.USAAF.
42-104848  29-05-1943   01-03-1944    rtd.USAAF, Napier Field.
42-104868  13-06-1943   01-03-1944    rtd.USAAF, Tyndall Field
42-104888  30-05-1943   22-02-1944    rtd.USAAF, Marianna Field
42-104908  30-05-1943   29-02-1944    rtd.USAAF, Napier Field.
42-104928  30-05-1943   01-03-1944    rtd.USAAF, Tyndall Field
42-104943  03-06-1943   23-02-1944    damaged in accident Jackson
                                      21-07-1943. Repaired.
                                      rtd.USAAF, Marianna Field