P 47D 25 RE - 509th FS/405th FG This is the Academy P47 D in 1/72 scale. The kit is a very good one, nice surface detail, engraved panel lines and very good fit. It comes with all the accesories to represent a strafing fighter bomber P 47D. Construction was easy. Paints are Model Master Metalizers in diferent shades. Decals are from the kit. Highly recomended kit.
WW2 colour video about the P 47 Amazing, real pilots, real kills.Based on the strafing Allied campaign in France 1944.
175 Sqn - 1944 This is the Academy Hawker typhoon Mk Ib in 1/72 scale. The kit is an easy build, no problems at all, good fit, engraved panel lines and crispy fine detail. No filler was used, just smooth sanding over the glued unions. Paints are Model Master enemels and the decals are from the kit. The decals are a problem as with all the old Academy kits, they produce silvering. To avoid that I applied Future coats until I obtained a glass looking surface. Humbrol Mate cote was used and the weathering was made with chalk pastels. Highly recomended kit.
This war time RAF film shows the Typhoon in action
Hawker Typhoon documentary
Monday, 24 September 2012
First Light:
Scenes from the BBC film First Light.
It´sbased on the book by Geoffrey Wellum "First Light".... who in 1940 was at age 18 the youngest RAF battle of Britain Spitfire pilot. He would survivef the Battleof Britain and recieve the DFC and later he fought over the isle of Malta.
Friday, 21 September 2012
The German: The German is a short film written and directed by Nick Ryan, Starring Toby Kebbell and Christian Brassington. It premiered at the 2008 Cork Film Festival and has subsequently been screened at Palm Springs Film Festival, LA Shorts Festival and San Paulo Film Festival in Brazil. Two airmen, two gentelmen !
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Winston Churchill: Finest Hour Inspirational words of the greatest leader of the free world in WW2.
The This was their finest hour speech was delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940. It was given just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the head of an all-party Coalition government. It was the third of three speeches which he gave during (roughly) the period of the Battle of Britain.
the "Blood, toil, tears & sweat " speech of 13 May, given 3 days after the start of the German offensive in the West; his first speech to Parliament as Prime Minister, reporting the formation of an all-party coalition government implacably resolved to fight on to ultimate victory
the "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of 4 June, reporting the success of the Germans in overrunning Holland, Belgium and France north of the Somme, and the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk, and preparing the British to fight on alone, if necessary.
This speech, made to the House of Commons after France had sought an armistice on the evening of 16 June
Blood, toil, tears and sweat
We shall fight on the beaches
Finest hour speech
The Fighting "Red Tails"
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of Afro American pilots who fought in WW2. Formally, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 447th bombardment Group of the United States Army Corps (USAAF after 20 June 1941).
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. During World War II, African Americans in many U.S. states were still subject to the Jim Crow laws The American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government. The Tuskegee Airmen were subjected to racial discrimination, both within and outside the army. Despite these adversities, they trained and flew with distinction. All black military pilots who trained in the United States trained at Tuskegee, including five Haitians. Although the 477th Bombardment Group "worked up" on North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, they never served in combat; the Tuskegee 332nd Fighter Group was the only operational unit, first sent overseas as part of Operation Torch, then seeing action in Sicily and Italy, before being deployed as bomber escorts in Europe, where they were very successful. When the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group painted the tails of their P-47s and later, P-51s, red, the nickname "Red Tails" was coined. Bomber crews applied a more effusive "Red-Tail Angels" sobriquet.
PROFILE: Mustang P 51C - 10NT - Lt. Lee Archer - 302nd FS/332nd FG
