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Originally Posted by PacificWind
Thanks, Sergio and Foute Man.
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force is indeed an official name. However, NEIAF abbreviation is very popular in historical sources. I think it's correct if we consider the location, in this case Dutch East Indies/Netherlands East Indies( Nederlands-Oost-Indië). Word "royal'' is rather added if we want to emphasize the affiliation with particular country, in this case Kingdom of the Netherlands.
So I would say both versions are correct, although they should be understood a bit differently.
Mostly I used this source for that Kittyhawk.
P-40 in the NEIAF
Also several examples in attachments. |
as this thread is about models and not history books and you're not writing one yourself, i will not dive to deep into this subject. i can only appreciate you made this recolor
however the use of royal does make sence as the official head of state for the dutch east indies was still the queen of the netherlands (in ww2 this was queen wilhelmina)
countries like australia, canada and new zealand still have a royal navy and royal airforce, even though their queen lives in england.......
sometimes popular terms used in history writing are simply incorrect..... another example is the word holland used for the netherlands. holland as a country has never existed, it's a region in the northwestern part of the netherlands.