Username : Wayne Little
First name : Wayne
Category : Judge – Non competing
Scale : 1/32
Manufacturer / Model : Hasegawa Bf109F-4/Trop
Extras : Eduard Seatbelt Set and Canopy masks.
The Subject for this GB will be Yellow 14 W.Nr. 8673, the final Bf109F-4/Trop flown by the 'Star of Africa' Hans Joachim Marseille, showing his then total of 151 victories as at 15th September 1942.
Over the following 2 weeks Marseille would take possession of a new Bf109G-2 in which he would claim his final 7 victories before his untimely death on the 30th of September. Engine trouble forced him to bail out of his aircraft, in the process he struck the tail plane knocking him unconscious, he fell to his death.
The Top scoring and deadliest fighter Ace in the Mediterranean theatre was no more…..
Marseille claimed a total of 151 victories in his 17 months in the MTO while with 3/JG27, the next closest to this total was Werner Schroer with 61 victories also with JG27. On the Allied side of the ledger Canadian pilot, George Beurling claimed a mere 27 victories in the MTO over Malta.
First name : Wayne
Category : Judge – Non competing
Scale : 1/32
Manufacturer / Model : Hasegawa Bf109F-4/Trop
Extras : Eduard Seatbelt Set and Canopy masks.
The Subject for this GB will be Yellow 14 W.Nr. 8673, the final Bf109F-4/Trop flown by the 'Star of Africa' Hans Joachim Marseille, showing his then total of 151 victories as at 15th September 1942.
Over the following 2 weeks Marseille would take possession of a new Bf109G-2 in which he would claim his final 7 victories before his untimely death on the 30th of September. Engine trouble forced him to bail out of his aircraft, in the process he struck the tail plane knocking him unconscious, he fell to his death.
The Top scoring and deadliest fighter Ace in the Mediterranean theatre was no more…..
Marseille claimed a total of 151 victories in his 17 months in the MTO while with 3/JG27, the next closest to this total was Werner Schroer with 61 victories also with JG27. On the Allied side of the ledger Canadian pilot, George Beurling claimed a mere 27 victories in the MTO over Malta.
