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Category: Feature Article

Feature Articles comprise the subject’s biography with the machine’s historical context as well as a full description of the model’s completion.

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Alone, Above All

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on November 22, 2020January 29, 2023

The Photo Recon pilot had no wingman, no flight, no formation. He flew alone in radio silence for hours at a time, navigating on dead reckoning all over mainland Europe; in his unarmed Spitfire he had only its altitude and speed, along with his wits and airmanship as protection.

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Hunted.

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on October 17, 2020December 7, 2021

“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” – Ulysses S. Grant

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“A Thousand Bombers, or One Battleship”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on September 28, 2020December 7, 2021

The Battle of the East China Sea.

“Nearly all [Beast] stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon… That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.” – A.N. Wilson

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Shades of Grey

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on September 19, 2020March 7, 2023

In this unusual piece I make the argument for why I’ve painted my in-progress USN Helldiver in a somewhat unconventional scheme.

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“Papagei” Staffel

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on August 15, 2020December 7, 2021

JV44’s “Papagei” Staffel only existed as an operational unit for a couple of weeks, but they live forever (whatever one may think of that…) in plastic. Here’s mine.

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Running On Fumes

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on July 19, 2020December 7, 2021

Seven hours, covering 1300NM over open ocean, limited fuel, one engine, enemy fighters; there were few missions more relentlessly hazardous, nor with so many different hazards to face.

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Two Weeks in January, 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on June 17, 2020December 7, 2021

If you read to the end, a sense of fatigue wouldn’t be unexpected. It will pale though when compared to the fatigue these men must have endured. I don’t know how they did it.

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“Imshi”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on May 2, 2020December 7, 2021

One Christmas my parents gave me Chaz Bowyer’s “The History of the RAF”. Within its pages is a captivating photo of a pilot resting on the ground, smiling. The pilot’s name was S/Ldr Ernest M. Mason DFC, known to all as “Imshi”. This is his story.

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“Rescue Me”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on April 12, 2020December 7, 2021

The little told story of the USAAF’s 5th ASR and how they rescued war weary P-47’s and in turn, rescued almost a thousand downed airmen in the North Sea and English Channel.

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Earning Their Stripes

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on March 20, 2020December 7, 2021

How does a squadron of trainee pilots return to base in the event bad weather when they don’t have radios in their aircraft? The recall bird goes up; here’s mine.

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