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Code	Make	Description	Price
HA3207	Corgi	A-26B Invader - 13th BS, 3rd BW, USAF Korean War (600 ONLY)	£
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	Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series HA3207 is this excellent 1/72 scale diecast model of Douglas A-26B Invader, as flown by flown by Captain Tony Curto of the 13th Bomber Sqn., 3rd Bomber Wing USAF based at Iwakuni AB, South Korea in March 1951. Production of only 600 pieces. The 3rd Bomber Wing was stationed in Iwakuni Japan as part of the occupation force when they began operations in support of the Korean War. They transferred to Kunsan AB South Korea in August 1951. A-26 #44-34287 was referred to by her crews as “Old Able” or occasionally as “Patches” because of all the patches that were applied to fix combat damage. At some point someone painted a voluptuous woman on the left side of the nose and named her “Versatile Lady”. In 1951 Captain Tony Curto awarded the aircraft a DFC and served cake in honor of the aircraft having flown 203 missions in the first year of the war. #44-34287 was one of the 12 planes that took part in the first bombing mission in Korea. The aircraft can be seen at the museum at Lackland AFB, Texas. In 1941 Douglas Aircraft Company began work on their twin-engine medium-bomber A-26 Invader. By the end of production there were 2,452 aircraft produced for all variants. The A-26/B-26 was the only U.S. bomber to take part in three wars, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. The confusion with the use of the designation B-26 began when the Martin B-26 Marauder was retired and in 1948 the USAF dropped the “A” (Attack) designator so the Douglas A-26 Invader became the B-26 Invader. The A-26 made its first European appearance in late 1944.

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