Let's see what I can gather... Interned aircraft in Portugal appear to be:
2 x P38 (1 x F; 1 x G)
15 x P-400 Airacobra
4 x P-39L ditto, all in service till 1950
6 x Liberators (B-24 + PB4Y)
1 x C-47
1 x Lockeed Hudson
1 x Vic. Wellington X
There were also other crashed planes not taken on strength, including sundry Condors and maritime Ju88s. I'm sorry but this is not my field so take this as FWIW.
BBC - WW2 People's War - The Crash of Hudson 3a in Portugal
Elsewhere:
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Fortunately, this was soon followed by a notice that he had been interned in Portugal. He told us afterwards that they had crash-landed in the sea off the Portuguese coast and been picked up by a patrol boat. As Portugal was a neutral country, they were put up in a hotel in Lisbon. Someone came from the embassy and took them to a store where they were fitted with civilian clothes. Eventually they were repatriated and brought home an attaché case full of drink with which we celebrated. He also gave me one of the two lightweight suits that he had brought back.
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350th Fighter Group in WWII
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The Group’s 75 pilots flew their P-39Ls (346 Sq) and P-39-400 (345 Sq and 347 Sq) fighters from RAF Stations Portreath and Predannack, on Land-Ends, England, to Port Lyautey, French Morocco, during the period 3 Jan to 28 Feb 1943. Sixty one arrived at the destination airfield. Ten pilots that encountered head winds, instead of the forecast tail wind (the only fuel reserve on the 1200 mile, six to seven hour over water flight) were forced to land in Portugal where they were interned. One more landed in Portugal after losing all electrical systems. One flight that broke up in a severe line squall over the Bay of Biscay lost one pilot, (KIA)—he was flying alone, probably still on the deck, at max range cruise settings (165 to 175 MPH), when he was likely ambushed, and was shot down by a patrolling Ju-88 pilot of KG-40 who claimed the kill; one pilot, after closing on the French coast to determine his location, ended up short of fuel and crash landed in Spain , where he was interned; another pilot on that flight became lost and crash landed in Ireland while attempting to return to England.
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