Corgi AA35308 North American B-25D-1 Mitchell United States Army Air Force 41-30517 Named Crabb 2nd 498th BS/345th BG, Dobodura, new Guinea, 1943
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Corgi
AA35308
1:72 Scale
North American B-25D-1 Mitchell United States Army Air Force 41-30517 Named Crabb 2nd 498th BS/345th BG, Dobodura, new Guinea, 1943
1:72 Scale
North American B-25D-1 Mitchell United States Army Air Force 41-30517 Named Crabb 2nd 498th BS/345th BG, Dobodura, new Guinea, 1943
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Decertificated by Corgi, no Limited Edition certificate
The 345th Medium Bombardment Group, "The Air Apaches" were widely known in the Southwest Pacific theatre. Their brightly painted Falcon or Parrot (498th Sqdn), Bat (499th Sqdn), Bat (500th Sqdn) and Panther (501st Sqdn) Mitchell B-25 twin engine bombers flew at low level, often at tree-top height. Converted to gun nosed B-25's, with up to 12 forward firing fifty caliber machine guns they were well respected and feared by the Japanese. Crabb 2nd is a B-25D-1 of the 498th BS/345 BG out of Dobudura, New Guinea in December 1943. This plane features a stylized parrot on the nose, with white striped tails and the name (painted as a crab) on the right side.