P-51B Red Tails "By Request" Graphics Set Scale:1/8

P-51B Red Tails "By Request" Graphics Set Scale:1/8The story of the Tuskegee Airmen began in 1942 with thirteen graduates at Tuskegee Army Air Field and Capt Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was one of them. In all, 992 pilots graduated with 450 serving overseas with the 332nd Fighter Group. The 332nd FG was unique in the fact that it was the only all black fighter group to see combat during World War II. The group had a distinguished war record. It received over 1,000 individual awards and decorations and also

She was used by the 102nd Radar Calibration Flight until 1955

Crew Chief W

perfected the hazardous art of low-level destruction against the ever diminishing presence of the Japanese naval and merchant fleets

to whom it was assigned

she was assigned to a training wing at Reese Air Force Base

A very small section of the original US white cowl ring band has retained immediately adjacent to the Beetle cartoon character

There are two Japanese kill marks and nine German ones

P-51D 44-72146 HL-P_ "Little Joe"

One of VF-84’s aircraft when they operated from the USS Bunker Hill towards the latter part of the Pacific War

and drove back behind their lines

reportedly flown by Rich Burns

1148 and it served the US Navy as BuNo 122619