Hanriot H.D.2

The Hanriot H.D.2 was a floatplane version of the Hanriot H.D.1 fighter with an enlarged rudder and fin that extended below the waterline. Seaplane HDs -- unlike their landplane cousins -- were armed with twin Vickers guns because the corresponding loss in performance was not as critical to their mission. While Aviation Militaire had declined to build the HD.1, Aviation Maritime accepted deliveries of at least several dozen HD.2s.

The US Navy purchased twenty-six HD.2s to accompany their Donnet-Denhaut flying boats working out of Dunkerque. They flew over five hundred escort missions but did not encounter German seaplane-fighters.

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