Corgi AA35310 North American B-25C Mitchell United States Army Air Force 41-12566/9B Named Legal Eagle 1 Lt George Bauer, 489th BS/340th BG, Landing Ground 99 (El Kabrit), 15th Air Force, Egypt, 15 December 1942

This item has a limited edition certificate included.

Landing Ground 99 (El Kabrit), Egypt, 15th December 1942 Constituted as 340th Bombardment Group (Medium) on 10 Aug 1942 and activated on 20 Aug. they trained with B-25's for duty overseas, arriving in the Mediterranean theatre in Mar 1943. Assigned first to Ninth AF and later (in Aug 1943) to Twelfth and served in combat from Apr 1943 to Apr 1945. They were engaged chiefly in support and interdictory missions, but sometimes bombed strategic objectives. Targets included airfields, railroads, bridges, road junctions, supply depots, gun emplacements, troop concentrations, marshalling yards, and factories in Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Greece.