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24/10/2023 2:42 pm
Searching for pokemon cards for my grandson I found a real nice set but it was part of a package deal that included a FM B-25 bomber. Then I saw the tail # and decided to make an offer which the seller accepted.
Dean almost did backflips when he opened his b-day gift, one of the cards is very rare and worth more than I paid for the entire package deal.
So I ordered this WWll gas truck for an interesting mini diorama. It took 2 days to build and paint that tiny truck, I'm glad it was cast in olive drab.
If that 0 was a 9 it would be my birthdate.
Sept. 23, 1944
1/24 scale GMC for size comparison.
David Vandermeer
Corinth, Texas
24/10/2023 3:02 pm
That is very nice ! It sounds like everyone was delighted with this deal ..... the best type of interaction.
The table-top almost looks like a carrier deck and with the top turret removed and two scale broomstick handles installed at the aft end, this could almost be a scene from the movie "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" !
Topic starter
24/10/2023 6:19 pm
Thanks Mike, I remember that movie well and love the actual bomb run footage they used.
David Vandermeer
Corinth, Texas
24/10/2023 7:01 pm
@david-vandermeer A very nice little diorama and well worth the fiddley work on such a small scale.
@mikedetorrice I've just been reading-up on your "30 Seconds Over Tokyo". It looks like a movie I'd enjoy.
24/10/2023 7:38 pm
....I've just been reading-up on your "30 Seconds Over Tokyo". It looks like a movie I'd enjoy.
I am sure it would be, Charles ! I believe there are now no longer any of the Doolittle raiders alive and the traditional "last toast" goblet has been placed upside-down on the table. The raid rightfully resulted in a MoH for Col. Doolittle.
Many flyers escaped to friendly Chinese Republican areas. Unfortunately, some of the flyers who were captured were brutalized and killed.
24/10/2023 10:56 pm
I enjoyed seeing photos of your models. I have a 1/48 scale B-25 model from Revell, which I painted and built as Doolittle’s plane. Who makes the GMC fuel truck? I would like to get one to go with my model planes.
if any of you ever get to Hawaii, there is a very nice display of a B-25 with markings of Ted Lawson’s plane from the raid at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. The book/movie “Thirty Seconds over Tokyo” is the story of Lawson and his crew.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
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24/10/2023 11:04 pm
One more thing. Several years ago I read a book with a title “I Could Never Be So Lucky Again”, or at least close to that. It is a biography of Doolittle. He had a PhD in engineering, was an aviation pioneer, and military leader. Ironically his last name was a complete opposite of his life.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
Charles Rockett reacted
25/10/2023 12:03 am
The last surviving raider was Richard Cole, who died in 2019 at age of 103. He was Doolittle’s co-pilot.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
Charles Rockett reacted
25/10/2023 2:28 am
great information there, thank you gentlemen. David the diorama is so lifelike, well done!
Charles Rockett reacted
25/10/2023 4:12 am
The raid rightfully resulted in a MoH for Col. Doolittle.
Many flyers escaped to friendly Chinese Republican areas. Unfortunately, some of the flyers who were captured were brutalized and killed.
Hey Mike, there was a seminal TV series produced in UK during the '70s "The World At War" narrated by Alec Guinness that covered the entire war in great depth and was regarded definitive until the collapse of Soviet Union revealed their files and more recent freedom of information requests have revealed still more information. Nevertheleess the World At War has the advantage of searching interviews with living participants and I can attest that their Doolittle coverage was excellent:
#7. "On Our Way: U.S.A. (1939–1942)" 12 December 1973.
The opposition by factions to the United States of America's entry into the war / Lend Lease / U-boat attacks on Atlantic convoys and American responses / mobilisation of America after Pearl Harbor, the loss of the Philippines / the Doolittle Raid / Midway and Guadalcanal.
Interviewees include W. Averell Harriman, George Ball, Norman Corwin, Ken Galbraith, John J. McCloy, Edison Uno, Paul Samuelson, Isamu Noguchi, Jimmy Doolittle, Richard Tregaskis, Minoru Genda, Mitsuo Fuchida, J. Lawton Collins and Vannevar Bush.
Ed Davis reacted
25/10/2023 5:14 am
The T.V. series sounds very interesting and I believe it was re-broadcast here in the U.S. on public television stations many years ago. Another series back then was narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, I recall.
Russia was Hitler's ally from 1939 until mid-1941 and the Soviet Union invaded and subjugated parts of Finland, the Baltic states and eastern Poland, among other areas. The eventual loss of around 20+ million was a terrible price to pay for having chosen their initial partner and then tactics that could be heroic/sacrificial and also many times not overly concerned with huge losses.And people fighting for their homes will go to the limit and past them.
Charles Rockett and Ed Davis reacted
25/10/2023 9:23 am
The World at War was shown in the US and was excellent. I think it was on our local PBS station. In the Chicago area this would have been WTTW.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
Charles Rockett reacted
25/10/2023 8:25 pm
Here are a couple of photos of a 1:1 scale B-25 diorama at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum taken in 2013. It shows a B-25 with markings and nose-art for Ted Lawson's plane "The Ruptured Duck". Lawson is standing next to Doolittle in second picture.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
Charles Rockett reacted
26/10/2023 3:31 am
The World at War was shown in the US and was excellent. I think it was on our local PBS station. In the Chicago area this would have been WTTW.
shown here in Australia on release too. Repeated many times since. I think it may even be on the local cable History channel now.
I remember the interviews Charles. Notably with Albert Speer.
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