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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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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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Otto Shultz’s Jg 27 Bf 109F-4/Trop

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

This piece is an addendum to the article on S/Ldr E. M. “Imshi” Mason, DFC; Otto Shultz was Mason’s victor, along with three others.

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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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Mrs. Yarra’s Boys

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on February 10, 2020December 7, 2021

Two brothers, two Spitfires; Ft/Lt. John Yarra and his brother, P/O Robert Yarra from rural NSW and their No.453 Sqn. Spitfires.

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A Balkans Bf 109 E-4/B

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

Ever since I first saw a picture of the “crazy paving” camouflaged 109’s of JG 54 I’ve wanted to make one. After many a year of procrastination, here it is…

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A War Weary Spitfire MkV of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Mount Farm

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on January 7, 2020December 7, 2021

What to do with a spare Spitfire?

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