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    Isopropanol Alcohol IPA 99.9% from amazon. I recently used it on a deagostini millennium falcon that had really think primer with Tamiya spray paint on top. Soak them in a tub for an hour or so and off it comes!

    MASTERS is here!

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    I was surprised to read that there were no real B-17s used for filming it , just the 2 full size mock ups and cgi.  Its been great so far. The first time they go up an chaos ensues gave me a genuine feeling of dread. I mean imagine going through all that then realising you have to do it again and again ?  Brave is not a big enough word.

    Seeing as i now have Apple TV i decided to watch greyhound. That was great too

    A-20G 43-10224 640BS 409BG 9th Airforce Help please

    in Aviation Discussion & Research

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    Im not sure if anyone will be able to help , but im looking for any info on the above Havoc.   It took off from Little Walden and collided with another plane. The Havoc crashed in a field where a Lady Named Elizabeth Anne Everitt tried to save the crew. Taken from the IWM archive

     

    Chelmsford Chronicle Friday 2/6/1944 reported: 'U.S. Airmen Honour Widow WHO GAVE LIFE TO SAVE CREW MOST of the 500 villagers of Ashdon, near Saffron Walden, attended the funeral on Wednesday of a brave woman-of the village who gave her life trying to save the crew of a blazing aircraft which, after colliding with another airplane, crashed in meadow in the She was Mrs. Elizabeth Everitt, of Puddlewharf Farm, Ashdon, 38-year-old widow of a farmer who died last October.

    She was milking cows at the time of the crash. Her four-year-old son Anthony was with her. Mrs. Everitt, a trained nurse, and her neighbour, Mrs. Mary Baldwin, 28, the widow of an R.A.F. pilot, ran over to the blazing wreckage. An airman staggered out. He was badly burned. " There are other chaps in the cockpit." he said. SENT FOR DOCTOR Mrs. Baldwin helped to get off his parachute while Mrs. Everitt, after giving orders to telephone for the doctor and get some bandages, prepared to dash into the cockpit, now enveloped in flames. An American staff-sergeant who had cycled up tried to dissuade her. Cannon bullets were flying about. But Mrs. Everitt went in. She was getting a man out when a terrific explosion occurred. Mrs. Everitt was killed. So were the airman and the staff-sergeant. Mrs. Baldwin said this of her brave neighbour afterwards: " How she reached the fuselage in that terrific heat I cannot imagine. And she dragged an airman out. She was a woman in a million.'' Little Anthony Everitt, now motherless as well fatherless, is being cared for by his uncle, Mr. George Everitt, who lives on a farm close by. AIRMEN'S SALUTE The Parish Church at Ashdon was filled for the funeral service, and many women sympathisers were in tears. During the service a formation of American aircraft circled over the cemetery, and as the coffin was lowered into the grave airplanes dipped in a final salute. Thirty members of the U.S.A.A.F. were among the mourners, who also included the Mayor of Saffron Walden (Cr. S. S. Wilson). The Rector, the Rev. T. P. Clark, officiated. Among the numerous wreaths was one inscribed: "In honour of very brave Englishwoman, from the Mayor and people of Saffron Walden " The Colonel Commanding the U.S bomber group to which the crashed airplane belonged, in a message to her family, spoke of Mrs. Everitt's "noble and courageous effort," and added: " Her action symbolises and strengthens the tie of unity and faith which binds English and Americans so closely as they fight together for the protection and preservation of our common faith and ideals." MEMORIAL WARD The Mayor of Saffron Walden informed The Essex Chronicle yesterday that he has opened an "Elizabeth Everitt Fund," by which he hopes to raise at least £2,000 for Saffron Walden General Hospital in memory of Mrs. Everitt. Many Americans have promised to subscribe, Mrs. Everitt was much interested in the hospital, and her husband died there last October'.

     

     

    Now i know enough about the story , but only just discovered it was a Havoc. Im currently building the HK models kit and would love to build this aircraft. Other than knowing it would have had a W5 on it i dont really know anything else.

     

    Any help would be greatly appreciated

     

     

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