B17G Flying Fortress
Revell Monogram Kit
1/48 Scale
Start Build Date: 1/5/2002
Finished: 2/23/2002
148 Pieces
"El Lobo II" served with the 457th Bomb Group's 748th Squad-
ron based at Army Air Force Station #130 in Glatton, England.
Lt. Kelly took her over Bernberg, an aircraft assembly plant,
on 2nd. November, 1944. Ball Turret gunner, Staff Sergeant
Bernard F. Sitek was kept busy that day by several of those
massed Luftwaffe "wolfpack" attacks, as was every other 457th
gunner on this the Group's worst mission. The original "El
Lobo" was piloted by Lt. Cornelius Woolf 4 crew after their
arrival overseas on 21 January, 1944 -- just in time to take part
in the 8th Air Force's "Big Week" offensive against German
industry one month later. Both aircraft helped the 457th live
up to its reputation as "The fireball Outfit." No. 42-32101 was a
Boeing 8-17G-35-BO,carried the blue prop bosses denoting the 748th Squadron
Interior Shots
Colors:
Color:All: Model Master Metalizer: Aluminum Plate
Stripe: True Blue FS15102, Interior: Zinc Chromate green
Interior Cockpit shots show highly detailed components, To bad it cannot be seen when
assembled
With (13) 50 caliber machine guns.
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