Tag: Ploesti

• Consolidated B-24 D – Part Five – Unloved 23790

  

  I am not going to assign a position to Unloved in the various waves of USAAF bombers that hit Ploesti in Romania. There are scholarly books that can report on every ship and crew that made the raid. I am just satisfied that it has most of the salient features of that early B-24 model…

  Dick Stein

  September 20, 2024

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, camouflage, Collecting, Decals, History, Model Airplane, Painting, prototypes

  colours and insignia, Ploesti, variants

• Avia B-135 – Part Four – One Time Lucky

  

  But there’s more than one kind of luck… Sold to Bulgaria by the Czechs, relegated to training duties even in that air force, and out for a four-plane mission in 1944 when American B-24 Liberators approached Bulgarian air space after attacking Ploesti. They were unable to catch most of the bombers but at least one…

  Dick Stein

  December 1, 2023

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Decals, History, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Avia, Bulgaria, Czech kit, Ploesti