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A reminder of the important work done by floatplanes, in this case the subject of two builds in this group (at time of writing): the Vought Kingfisher.

 

From US Coastguard Facebook posting today:

 

”17 September, 1944.  58 hours earlier, cutters Jackson and Bedloe went down in a hurricane/massive storm with 47 souls after safely escorting a torpedoed Liberty ship to Norfolk, VA.   Pictured here are some of the 20 survivors of the cutter Jackson awaiting the arrival of a Coast Guard rescue ship aboard one of the USCG Kingfisher scout planes that found them.  Seventeen men were lost to the elements in the hours after the sinking.

 

https://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2018/06/the-long-blue-line-jacksons-battle-with-the-rogue-waves-of-44/

 

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On 10/3/2019 at 5:35 AM, dnl42 said:

Hm, I've always had a hankering for that Airfix 1/144 Clipper...

Why not 1/72 ? There are at least two kits (Anigrand resin and Combat Model vacu - very rough).

Cheers

J-W

 

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