Spikes and Devil suggested I skin this F4F recently, only just got round to finishing it.
This 888 Squadron Fleet Air Arm Martlet Mk II was part of the fleet carrier HMS Formidable's air group during Operation Torch, the invasion of Vichy French North Africa in November 1942. The Royal Navy were not too popular in the region since they had attacked the French Fleet there in 1940 so it was decided to paint over the British markings with US ones in the hope this would prevent the French from shooting at them. As it turned out however the French gunners fired at US aircraft as readily as British ones.
