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Lt. John “Ray” Johnson’s “Fighting Cocks” P-38L-1 Sep 1944 – Mar 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on April 30, 2019December 7, 2021

The 13th Air Force did not fight the most glamorous of wars, theirs’ was a war of ground attack, relentlessly destroying Japanese ground forces and infrastructure. They fought, not from centralized bases closely tied together, but from island bases, spread hundreds of miles apart.

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That’s a wrap on the magnificent @tamiya_inc_jp #148scale #faireyswordfish built as a Taranto raider. Glamour shots and write up coming soon.
The fuselage is done. The wings next.
All the markings are now painted, so it’s on to the weathering. I’m going to take the fuselage to its finish before doing the same for the wings.
Painting progress…. The Taranto 815 NAS Swordfish were painted in the SE1 scheme with the light grey overpainted with black distemper. I’ve completed the base paint job and even started painting some of the markings.
So, this happened last night. I’ve begun the paint, always a happy moment. My Swordfish belonged to 815 NAS and these airframes had a black distemper applied shortly before the attack on Taranto. I’ve attempted to replicate a bad paint job by letting some of the underlying grey of the plastic show through.
On the night of November 10/11 1940 the Royal Navy and its Fleet Air Arm delivered what became a knock out blow to the Italian Navy. The audacious attack proved low level air attack with torpedoes, even over shallow water could be devastating to naval vessels at anchor. If the bombs they dropped had exploded they'd have proved this attack mode with bombs would prove equally destructive.

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