ParaFrags

[Kenneth Joy]

Hello all!  

  Quick question... does anyone sell WW2 ParaFrags that would have been used on Havoc's/Mitchell's in the Pacific.  I've searched to no avail.  Perhaps I'm using the wrong nomenclature???

[blackbetty]

i saw some on ebay but cant find them

you can see them in this thread:

https://forum.largescalemodeller.com/topic/19922-marine-mud-mover-pbj-1h-gun-ship-“love-bug”-vmb-613-in-early-1945/#comment-239835

[D Bellis]

3 hours ago, Kenneth Joy said:

... does anyone sell WW2 ParaFrags

Resin2Detail used to have them, but they are no longer listed in their catalog:

 

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[Juggernut]

Not sure about the A-20 but there’s a photo in the Warpath Across the Pacific book that shows the parafrag rack in the bomb bay of a B-25 and they’re stowed vertically in individual cells for a total of 72 parafrags.  The rack is like a big box with open bottom with subdivisions within.  I’ve heard these were locally fabricated but not sure.  Others may know more.  

[Martinnfb]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184438011981

 

EDIT: Juggernut was faster,  

Edited May 3 by Martinnfb

[Kenneth Joy]

Well thanks Gents.  I'll see if I can get a few.  

 

To Juggernaut... I actually have that book and the one on Havoc's and Ken's Men (B-17s).  But i was to focused on the Havoc book and must have missed it in the B-25 book.  I'll need to look at that tonight.  72 paras would be costly to fill a bombay.  Any how thanks for pointing that out

[Kenneth Joy]

... there's four to a pack, would need six packs.  That's over $60 bucks into a project that is already soaring in cost with all the AM stuff.  I'm running out of excuses to tell the wife🤔

[Martinnfb]

[Kenneth Joy]

Oh no doubt... but the wife is looking at me squirrelly eyed.  I keep buying and buying with little ever finished.

[Finn]

If you want to go crazy, try scratchbuilding a bunch and while you are at it, i think they used this type of rack:

 

https://www.docdroid.com/K5Qj24z/douglas-a-26-ab-erection-and-maintenance-manual-pdf#page=563

 

At the 2:35 mark in this video some AN-M40 Parafrags are being dropped by A-20s:

 

https://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675020569_New-Guinea-Campaign_General-Douglas-MacArthur_7th-Division_capture-of-Lae_9th-Division

 

Jari