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Maybe the attacks on the oil fields of Ploesti (Romania) rather ? Although I’m not aware of B-26 involved…

Indeed ! If the new Airfix Avro Anson kit sells well, perhaps they will offer us a nice 1:48 DH 89 kit in the future. A 1:48 DH 88 kit would be lovely too. Both are such graceful looking aircrafts !

Thanks !! If anybody needs translations from the French of specific bits, let me know.

This seems to be a picture of a French V-156F damaged and captured by the Italians (if I identify the uniforms correctly). The V-156F were engaged both against the Germans (Northern front) and the Italians (Southern front), but did not fare much better than one would expect from their...

I'm confused : Isn't the caption of the picture saying that there was a 'smaller' version of the LO outline made before the bigger one ? Isn't that why eduard would have made a larger one to represent the normal (larger) outline ?

Nice ! I did some fairly extensive research on the record flight of the Kamikaze for a modelling project (it's documented in part on scalemates.com). Is your book available in digital format too ? I'm in Europe and shipping might be a problem.

F-5B-1-LO 42-68237 Frisk it Looks like UK. Probably overall PRU Blue aircraft.

PS. A Mustang is flying overhead, perhaps a French I/33 recon F-6.

The shape (and attachment points) looks about right for a Tiger Moth, and it's a likely candidate for the story. I don't have the size of the propellor to check.

I first thought it could be for a Gladiator, since a number were used in the Egyptian front, but the shape is wrong, and probably corresponds more to that of a slower airplane, as Wurger points out. It does look like a standard RAF propeller with its black finish with yelow tips, so the tale may...

Actually, all of these are F-5, of different types. They were aircrafts of the II/33 (or possibly I/33 depending on the date, if after the group was reorganized) French Recon group. I doubt the picture was taken in Provence, in August '44, as the F-5Gs point to a later date, like Winter 44-45...

Is it not ferrying aircrafts back to San Diego ? I mean, are these not aircraft in need of servicing or being retired ? A number of them (F6F in front, row after the neatly aligned Avengers) have no engines, the F4F are (older) F4F-3 without folding wings, and it's a motley array of types...

I built the Italeri (as reboxed by Tamiya) Hurricane Mk I and it was quite nice. I imagine that one of those decent/recent kits (Hasegawa, Airfix, Italeri) will have a boxing with the right squadron code, so that may help you decide. Of course, you will still have to find out the individual...

It looks more like a Tachikawa Ida than a Mitsubishi Sonia (caption on the back).