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Lt. Gerald “Andy” Anderson RCNVR; the Last Canadian

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on January 12, 2023January 14, 2023

While Gerald Anderson didn’t receive a Victoria Cross, nor is his loss particularly commemorated, ultimately the price he paid was fully equal to Robert Gray’s, and was indeed equal to all of those who died and so deserves an equal measure of commemoration. That is why the model below is Gerald Anderson’s Corsair, not Robert Gray’s.

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The First Fighting Squadron VF-34

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on February 14, 2021December 7, 2021

In early 1944 the US Navy assembled an untrained and ill-prepared fighter squadron and shipped it for immediate action in the final stage of Operation Cartwheel. This is the story of the first Fighting Squadron 34.

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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, 2020December 7, 2021

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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鍾馗 “Shoki”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on August 11, 2020December 7, 2021

After the VLR P-51 I felt like doing something quick and easy. Here’s my Hasegawa Ki44-II as a straight up modelling piece.

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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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The RAAF’s New Guinea Boston Tea Party

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on December 28, 2019December 7, 2021

This is the story of an aircraft the RAAF didn’t want to use and a model I didn’t want to finish.

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  • Feature Article

Not Just Pretty Nose Art; The Black Widows of Iwo Jima and Ie Shima, March-August 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on September 18, 2019December 7, 2021

The men of the 348th, 349th and 6th Night Fighter Squadrons were more than the nose art on their P-61’s.

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  • Feature Article

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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No. 25 Squadron, RNZAF Piva Airfield, Bougainville, March – May 1944

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on March 28, 2019December 7, 2021

This update brings to life another of the older articles, from around 2005-2006 and tells the story of No.25 Squadron RNZAF in Bougainville in mid 1944…

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