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[Airframes]

Yep, it's a pain to try to model. I'd considered 'back dating' a B-25J kit to a Mitchell II with the tail gun and waist gun positions, but it can't be done easily, as the waist windows were parallel on the 'D', unlike the 'J', which had staggered waist windows. Also, the tail gun position, although 'raised' like the later 'J', is slightly different. Probably easier to convert a C/D kit!

 

[Lucky13]

All of the crew perished shortly after the photo was taken, Irving S Wacker, Daniel W Keasley, William F O'Brien, Robert A Leffler, Franklin N Anderson, Herbert A Pritchard, Jerry A Giuliano, Marion J Spagnolo, Michael A Soltesz, Jerome F Beshoner....

 

[Wildcat]

No.7OTU RAAF.

 

[GingahNinja]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Montreal-built Valentine tanks ready for shipment to the USSR. November, 1941

 

[syscom3]

RAF night fighter pilots , joined by squadron dog Kim, 1941.

Night fighter pilots of No. 85 Squadron RAF, wait in the crew room at Debden, Essex. They are wearing goggles to adjust their eyes for night flying. Joining them is squadron dog Kim, 1941.

 

[Flightpath]

F6F Hellcat cooking on the deck of a carrier............

 

[nuuumannn]

Also, the tail gun position, although 'raised' like the later 'J', is slightly different. Probably easier to convert a C/D kit!

You might have to use both a D and a J kit; D fuselage so you can use the original mid upper turret position and cut out the holes for the waist guns and graft the J kit's tail gun position on. Not impossible, but I guess you'll have to be pretty handy with the kraft knife! If anyone can do it, Terry...

Nice pic of 7 OTU, Wildcat; that's a pretty common official snap and was taken as one of a series from the top of the wing of Liberator A72-76. That one was from the starboard wing and the follow on image usually published along with it was taken from '76's port wing, with her nose in the foreground. A72-43 is also visible in her entirety. The official caption reads "Crews are assembling for final instructions from their commanding officer [Grp Capt A.A. Barlow] and flying instructor before taking off on a training flight."

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man, that is not a place to be!

 

[michaelmaltby]

Some of the close-to 800 Montreal-built Noorduyn Norseman delivered to the USAAF. Glen Miller disappeared in a Norseman and Canadian ace Buzz Beurling crashed in Rome ferrying a Norseman to Israel.

 

[Wildcat]

Nice! I've always loved the look of the Norseman.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Norseman assigned to an Air Commando unit in the Philippines, 1944. The unit went on to duties in Japan in 1945

 

[syscom3]

Venus, the bulldog mascot of the HMS Vansittart, at the wheel, 1941.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very cool!

 

[Njaco]

A South African Squadron of Douglas Boston aircraft returns from a sortie to the Mareth Line in North Africa while another squadron is briefed in the foreground.

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[Flightpath]

Boresighting a Spitfire's guns...........

The armourers fit a small periscope into the breech of the gun, they then look down through the barrel to the targets set up at the hangar.

 

[N4521U]

What was the sighting distance?
Was ther more than a single bullseye?

 

[michaelmaltby]

Building PBY Cansos in Montreal, 1943

 

[Wayne Little]

great pics guys.

 

[Njaco]

Panzerjager troops of a Grenadier regiment man a Pak 37mm anti-tank gun during an assault along a road on the Eastern Front. In the distance a vehicle is burning fiercely.

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