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I've scanned the announcements and news and not found anything indicating that I can't recommend a novel written by my dad in this section, so I'm going to, because it's right in this wheelhouse. If this is against the rules, I apologize and feel free to delete it. (And yes, there's now a movie...

Decided to try to finish another model I started a year ago. I had gotten discouraged by lack of reference photos and information to accurately build the cockpit layout of the Ki-43-ii otsu that this kit represents. There is only one known photo of the Ki-43-ii cockpit and the layout differed...

We are pleased to announce that the first volume of Ken's Men Against the Empire will be published next month. You can pre-order your copy from our website. Free personalized autographs are available upon request. This volume covers the 43rd's B-17 era, spanning from the Group's early days...

I am starting a short story about the South Pacific war and was thinking of having a Tech Rep from Douglas or some other company as a character. Did the reps, being civilians, have any restrictions? Did they stay and mess with officers? I know things were pretty loose in the SWP, especially in...

Check this out... USMC photographer David Douglas Duncan rode in this converted drop tank on two occasions. June 13 and June 15, 1945 to photograph USMC Corsairs attacking Japanese position on Okinawa. The pilot is Major Ed h. Taylor, commnder, 28th Photo-Recon Squadron and the plane is a...

The Aviationist » Incredible photos of some of the 150 U.S. WWII aircraft lying in the Airplane Graveyard in the Pacific

User Name: fubar57 Name: George Category: Advanced Kit: Monogram Accessories: Decals The U.S. Navy and Marines operated trainer/target tug Marauders as the JM-1 (equivalent to the AT-23B/TB-26C). My subject is JM-1, Bu No 66759 of VJ-12 serving in the Pacific. The 6: As always...

In todays LA Times. Map may hold key to lost World War II bones at Pacific battle site - LA Times

I am trying to identify a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat in Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands. The aircraft was stripped of it's engine, main instrument panel, left and right consoles, and all six .50 cal guns and dumped in the lagoon. Pacific Wrecks (Pacific Wrecks - F6F-3 Hellcat Bureau Number 25116)...

In French service

As I'm tooling about in HO trains every now and then, I was wondering....does anyone know if Scalecoat 11 Wash Away, is available here in the UK? I've got a Southern Pacific and a Santa Fe RSD-5, that I need stripped...

How did the Chinese manage to fend off the Japanese as well as they did? It seems that the Chinese military must have been of better capability than commonly assumed, or the Japanese didn't make it top priority? And then there is Operation Ichi-Go. What were the Japanese thinking? With the...

Would the Central Pacific island hopping campaign under Admiral Chester Nimitz have defeated Japan without the South West Pacific campaign under General Douglas MacArthur?

Hi. New member, first post. I know that in the Pacific theater some B-24s were armed with a shallow plexigass dish type turret that the gunner presumably fired standing up instead of the retractable ball turret. You can usually tell which B-24s had them by the cut out windows at the sides of...

Haven't really studied the PTO very much, so I'm curious to hear you folks' opinions on this: Which late-war IJAF fighter had the best chance of successfully intercepting the B-29 Superfortress? I know that while some of their best fighters like the Ki-84 Hayate, Ki-100 and N1K Shiden...

I am a film maker in LA and I am researching info for a documentary about the Hump in the south pacific during '43 and '45. My grandfather flew 184 missions over the hump and is still with us today. I recently got his stories on film and I am looking to get more hump pilots on film as soon as I...

Hi, everyone, just wanted to let you know I am working on a card game involving WWII air combat. This will be a semi-complicated game allowing for the different characteristics of various aircraft to be used for gameplay. My son and I have tried out the first beta prototype, all hand-written on...