A Slow But Deadly Banshee
US Army AF A-24B Banshee 635th Bombardment Sq.
- Subject:
Douglas A-24B Banshee
US Army Air Forces (1941-1947)
407 BG 42-54298
1944 World War 2 - Amchitka, AK
Olive Drab, Neutral grey- Scale:
- 1:48
- Status:
- Completed
- Started:
- December 8, 2021
- Completed:
- May 31, 2022
The USAAF used SBD-5s as the A-24B-DT Banshee (DT stands for Douglas and the Tulsa production facility). Flying from land based airfields, the aircraft had their tail hooks removed. The 407th Bomb Group undertook a short-lived combat deployment to Alaska during the summer of 1944. The Banshees received the standard USAAF camouflage of Olive Drab on the upper surfaces and Neutral Gray on the undersides. The insignias had a red outline and were of an unusually large size, converted from the simple star-and-disc originally applied to these aircraft by Douglas Aircraft
(taken from Eduard Dauntless manual)
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