WHITE EAGLE 1/72-SCALE DOUGLAS B-18 BOLO VACUFORM KIT WW2 USAAC USAAF BOMBER RCA

Description: Shipping WHITE EAGLE 1/72-SCALE DOUGLAS B-18 BOLO VACUFORM KIT WW2 USAAC USAAF BOMBER RCA WHITE EAGLE 1/72-SCALE DOUGLAS B-18 BOLO VACUFORM KIT WW2 USAAC USAAF BOMBER RCAF DIGBY BRAZIL ASW PATROL PANAMA CANAL OPEN UNBUILT PLASTIC VACUFORM KIT INVENTORIED 100% COMPLETE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS PLEASE ASK ME BEFORE BIDDING / PURCHASING I WANT EVERYONE TO BE 100% SATISFIED WITH NO SURPRISES OR MIS-UNDERSTANDINGS IF YOU PURCHASE MULTIPLE ITEMS I WILL COMBINE INTO A SINGLE INVOICE TO CHARGE YOU THE MOST ECONOMICAL POSTAGE CHARGE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information from Internet Encyclopedia Serving in every theater of war, from Iceland, Canada and the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, through the Caribbean and Latin America to the remote Galapagos, Alaska, Hawaii, Java, Australia and the Philippines, the B-18 was lauded by crew members as a superb anti-submarine aircraft. Indeed, some were amongst the first USAAC aircraft to strike back at the invading Japanese forces in the Far East, and others were lost to both aerial and surface combat. Even the most knowledgeable aviation historian may know little about the Douglas B-18 and its contribution to WWII aviation. At best, there may be the sense of an unwanted and unpopular aircraft that contributed little to the US war effort. Nothing could be further from the truth. The B-18 ended up being precisely the right aircraft, at the right time, to help America train and field globe-girdling air forces. It was the B-19 that defeated the extremely serious Axis submarine threat in the Caribbean during the first, crucial eight months following the US entry into the war and it was the B-18 that trained most of the crews who took the first B-17 squadrons overseas. US tax payers truly got their moneys worth from the 340 aircraft built and as this long-overdue study will reveal, the impact of these aircraft was out of all proportion to their numbers. This is an aircraft for which a detailed history can now be told and its true place in aviation history properly assessed at last. If ever an aircraft has been unfairly treated by history, it must be the elusive Douglas B-18 bomber. The very few times that it has been described in aviation journals, the articles invariable speak of the aircraft in crude and disparaging termsthe bomber that nobody wanted and the Great Bolo Boondoggle are some of the kinder epithets. Indeed, the myths surrounding the B-18 start at its very beginning in 1935. It was not a development of the DC-1 or DC-2, but was, in fact, developed precisely in parallel to the DC-1 as the DB-1. B-18s served in almost every theater of WW2, from Iceland, Canada, and the US Eastern Seaboard, through the Caribbean and Latin America and to the remote Galapagos, to Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines and even to Java and Australia. Examples were lost to both aerial and surface combat, but as one crewman put it, had Douglas set out to do so, they could not have designed a better anti-submarine aircraft. B-18s came closewithin a matter of minutesto being the first USAAC aircraft to strike back at the invading Japanese forces in the Far East, and could well have taken the war to the enemy months in advance of the legendary Doolittle Raid. This was an aircraft that pioneered airborne radar and anti-submarine warfare and almost replaced the immortal Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and yet the B-18 disappeared from the annals of aviation history with not so much as a footnote in most authoritative histories of WW2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information from Internet Encyclopedia The Douglas B-18 Bolo is an American medium bomber which served with the United States Army Air Corps and the Royal Canadian Air Force (as the Digby) during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Bolo was built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, based on its DC-2, and was developed to replace the Martin B-10. By 1940, it was considered to be underpowered, to have inadequate defensive armament, and to carry too small a bomb load. Many were destroyed during the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines in December 1941. In 1942, the surviving B-18s were relegated to antisubmarine, transport duty, and training. A B-18 was one of the first American aircraft to sink a German U-boat, U-654 on 22 August 1942 in the Caribbean. In 1934, the United States Army Air Corps put out a request for a bomber with double the bomb load and range of the Martin B-10, which was just entering service as the Army's standard bomber. In the evaluation at Wright Field the following year, Douglas showed its DB-1. It competed with the Boeing Model 299 (later developed into the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress) and Martin Model 146. While the Boeing design was clearly superior, the crash of the B-17 prototype (caused by taking off with the controls still locked) removed it from consideration. During the depths of the Great Depression, the lower price of the DB-1 ($58,500 vs. $99,620 for the Model 299) also counted in its favor. The Douglas design was ordered into immediate production in January 1936 as the B-18. The DB-1 design was essentially that of the DC-2, with several modifications. The wingspan was 4.5 ft (1.4 m) greater. The fuselage was deeper, to better accommodate bombs and the six-member crew; the wings were fixed in the middle of the cross-section rather than to the bottom due to the deeper fuselage. Added armament included nose, dorsal, and ventral gun turrets. Preston Tucker's firm received a contract to supply a remote controlled gun turret for the aircraft. The initial contract called for 133 B-18s (including DB-1), using Wright R-1820 radial engines. The last B-18 of the run, designated DB-2 by the company, had a power-operated nose turret. This design did not become standard. Additional contracts in 1937 (177 aircraft) and 1938 (40 aircraft) were for the B-18A, which had the bombardier's position further forward over the nose-gunner's station. The B-18A also used more powerful engines. Deliveries of B-18s to Army units began in the first half of 1937, with the first examples being test and evaluation aircraft being turned over to the Materiel Division at Wright Field, Ohio, the Technical Training Command at Chanute Field, Illinois, the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and Lowry Field, Colorado. Deliveries to operational groups began in late 1937, the first being the 7th Bombardment Group at Hamilton Field, California. Production B-18s, with full military equipment fitted, had a maximum speed of 217 mph, cruising speed of 167 mph, and combat range of 850 miles. By 1940, most USAAC bomber squadrons were equipped with B-18s or B-18As. However, the deficiencies in the B-18/B-18A bomber were becoming readily apparent to almost everyone. In range, in speed, in bomb load, and particularly in defensive armor and armament, the design came up short, and the Air Corps conceded that the aircraft was obsolete and totally unsuited in the long-range bombing role for which it had originally been acquired. To send crews out in such a plane against a well-armed, determined foe would have been nothing short of suicidal. However, in spite of the known shortcomings of the B-18/B-18A, the Douglas aircraft was the most numerous American bomber type deployed outside the continental United States at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was hoped that the B-18 could play a stopgap role until more suitable aircraft such as the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator became available in quantity. When war came to the Pacific, most of the B-18/B-18A aircraft based overseas in the Philippines and in Hawaii were destroyed on the ground in the initial Japanese onslaught. The few Bolos that remained played no significant role in subsequent operations. The B-18s remaining in the continental US and in the Caribbean were then deployed in a defensive role in anticipation of attacks on the US mainland. These attacks never materialized. B-17s supplanted B-18s in first-line service in 1942. Following this, 122 B-18As were modified for anti-submarine warfare. The bombardier was replaced by a search radar with a large radome. Magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) equipment was sometimes housed in a tail boom. These aircraft, designated B-18B, were used in the Caribbean on anti-submarine patrol. On 2 October 1942, a B-18A, piloted by Captain Howard Burhanna Jr. of the 99th Bomb Squadron, depth charged and sank the German submarine U-512 north of Cayenne, French Guiana. Two aircraft were transferred to Força Aérea Brasileira in 1942 and used with a provisional conversion training unit set up under the provisions of Lend-Lease. They were later used for anti-submarine patrols. They were struck off charge at the end of the war. In 1940 the Royal Canadian Air Force acquired 20 B-18As (as the Douglas Digby Mark I), and also used them for patrol duties, being immediately issued to 10 Squadron to replace the squadron's Westland Wapitis. Bolos and Digbys sank an additional two submarines during the course of the war. RCAF Eastern Air Command (EAC) Digbys carried out 11 attacks on U-boats. U-520 was confirmed sunk by Flying Officer F. Raymes' crew of No. 10 (BR) Squadron, on 30 October 1942. east of Newfoundland. However, the antisubmarine role was relatively short-lived, and the Bolos were superseded in this role in 1943 by Consolidated B-24 Liberators which had a much heavier payload and a substantially longer range which finally closed the mid-Atlantic gap. Surviving USAAF B-18s ended their useful lives in training and transport roles within the continental United States, and saw no further combat action. Two B-18As were modified as unarmed cargo transports under the designation C-58. At the end of the war, those bombers that were left were sold as surplus on the commercial market. Some postwar B-18s of various models were operated as cargo or crop-spraying aircraft by commercial operators. Some of the Douglas Digbys in Canadian service were converted to either C-58s or used for training. DB-1 - Manufacturer's designation for prototype, first of B-18 production run, 1 built. B-18 -Initial production version, 131 or 133 built.[9] B-18M - Trainer B-18 with bomb gear removed. DB-2 - Manufacturer's designation for prototype with powered nose turret; last of B-18 production run, 1 built. B-18A - B-18 with more powerful Wright R-1820-53 engines and relocated bombardier's station, 217 built. B-18AM - Trainer B-18A with bomb gear removed. B-18B - Antisubmarine conversion, 122 converted by adding a radar and magnetic anomaly detector B-18C - Antisubmarine conversion, 2 converted. Fixed forward-firing .50 cal machine gun, starboard side of the fuselage near lower nose glazing. XB-22 - Improved version of B-18 using Wright R-2600-3 radial engines (1,600 hp/1,194 kW). Never built, largely due to better light bombers such as the B-23 Dragon.[12] C-58 - Transport conversion. Digby Mark I - Royal Canadian Air Force modification of B-18A. Named after the RAF school of bombing at RAF Digby. Brazil - Brazilian Air Force 1st Bomber Group (3 examples) Canada - Royal Canadian Air Force No. 10 Squadron RCAF, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Digby Mk.1) United States Army Air Corps/United States Army Air Forces 1st Search Attack Group, Langley Field, Virginia (B-18A/B/C) 2d Bombardment Group, Langley Field, Virginia (B-18A) 3d Bombardment Group, Barksdale Field, Louisiana (B-18) 5th Bombardment Group, Hickam Field, Hawaii (B-18)** 6th Bombardment Group, Rio Hato Airfield, Panama, (B-18/B-18A/B) 7th Bombardment Group, Hamilton Field, California, (B-18) 5th Bombardment Group, Luke Field, Oahu, Hawaii Territory (B-18)** 9th Bombardment Group, Caribbean; Panama and South American air bases (B-18/B-18A/B) 11th Bombardment Group, Hickam Field, Hawaii Territory (B-18)** 13th Bombardment Group, Langley Field, Virginia (B-18A/B) 17th Bombardment Group, McChord Field, Washington (B-18) 19th Bombardment Group, Clark Field, Philippines Commonwealth (B-18)** 22d Bombardment Group, Muroc Field, California (B-18) 25th Bombardment Group, Caribbean (B-18/B) 27th Bombardment Group, Barksdale Field, Louisiana (B-18) 28th Bombardment Group, California, (B-18) 28th Composite Group, Elmendorf Field, Alaska, (B-18A) 29th Bombardment Group, Langley Field (B-18A) 40th Bombardment Group, Panama, Puerto Rico (B-18/B) 41st Bombardment Group, California, (B-18) 42nd Bombardment Group, Portland, Oregon (B-18) 45th Bombardment Group, Savannah Airfield, Georgia (B-18A) 47th Bombardment Group, McChord Field, Washington (B-18) 479th Antisubmarine Group, Langley Field, Virginia (B-18A/B) Shipping & Handling Back to Top US ShippingPlease check eBay's Shipping & Payment tab USPS Priority Mail® International ShippingPlease check eBay's Shipping & Payment tab USPS First-Class Mail International (Worldwide) USPS First-Class Mail International (Canada) FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. 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