Crimea_River
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Hi all,
Those of you who followed my Me 410 intruder build may recall that I received a fair amount of help on the project from a chap named Mike Harrison. Mike's not a member of the forum but "lurked" here after I had contacted him through Paul (Maximowitz) to help with info on my 410. After that, Mike took a keen interest in my build and offered lots of advice and encouragement for which I'm thankful.
Mike's knowledge of intruder operations came about because of a personal project he undertook to gather as much information as he could about the loss of the subject aircraft in which his uncle, along with most of his crew colleagues, died on the night of April 24/25, 1944, having been shot down near their home base in England by an Me 410 intruder piloted by Wolfgang Wenning. The reason for this post is that Mike would be very keen to see someone build a model of the Halifax in question and I offered to post it here in case someone was looking for an interesting subject to depict. Mike's not been able to find any pictures of this particular aircraft but figures it looks something like this:
The story of this Halifax, the result of Mike's work, can be found at these two links, fascinating reading actually. I'm sure Mike would appreciate if anyone could shed any more light on the subject and that he would be very pleased to see this aircraft built as a model subject.
Aircraft crashes in Welney in WW2, Halifax LK789
Manea · Connect - RAF Halifax Crash News Update
Those of you who followed my Me 410 intruder build may recall that I received a fair amount of help on the project from a chap named Mike Harrison. Mike's not a member of the forum but "lurked" here after I had contacted him through Paul (Maximowitz) to help with info on my 410. After that, Mike took a keen interest in my build and offered lots of advice and encouragement for which I'm thankful.
Mike's knowledge of intruder operations came about because of a personal project he undertook to gather as much information as he could about the loss of the subject aircraft in which his uncle, along with most of his crew colleagues, died on the night of April 24/25, 1944, having been shot down near their home base in England by an Me 410 intruder piloted by Wolfgang Wenning. The reason for this post is that Mike would be very keen to see someone build a model of the Halifax in question and I offered to post it here in case someone was looking for an interesting subject to depict. Mike's not been able to find any pictures of this particular aircraft but figures it looks something like this:
The story of this Halifax, the result of Mike's work, can be found at these two links, fascinating reading actually. I'm sure Mike would appreciate if anyone could shed any more light on the subject and that he would be very pleased to see this aircraft built as a model subject.
Aircraft crashes in Welney in WW2, Halifax LK789
Manea · Connect - RAF Halifax Crash News Update