Markings 1:72 for a Fortress of the 91st Bomb Group from Bassingbourn. A machine with the code LL-D and more than sixty-five raid symbols.
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The bomb group based at Bassingbourn in England was one of the best-known formations of the Eighth Air Force. Its machines can be recognized by the letter A set in a triangle on the vertical tail surface, the triangle itself marking membership of the 1st Air Division. This system was vitally important when assembling formations of thirty-six to forty-eight machines, and in the largest operations of over two thousand aircraft.
The particular Fortress the sheet covers arrived in England for modification for combat and in May 1944 was assigned to one of the squadrons of the group, later transferred to another as a replacement machine. The chief of the ground crew gave it its name. The crew of a captain whose copilot became famous after the war as the author of published memoirs completed the prescribed count of thirty flights on it, and flew the last of them two days after the Normandy landings.
The row of symbols painted above the nose art grew throughout the fall of 1944 and by November there were over sixty-five of them. On a model it is precisely this band of tiny markings that is the most laborious part of the build, because it has to sit at an exact spacing. It pays to seat the outermost pieces first, check the line and only then fill in the middle.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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