1:72 scale diecast aircraft by Hobby Master. LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 550 PLANES!!

Features:

Fully assembled and painted
All markings are pad applied
Ordinance included, as shown
Display stand included
Rotating propellor

Like all carrier aircraft the F6F flying from USS Yorktown (CV-10) had their distinctive identification markings. The tail had a diagonal white stripe as well as a green propeller hub. The fighters of Fighting Squadron One (VF-1) had their baptism under fire in 1943 when they first met the enemy at Tarawa. They had great success protecting the ground troops as they bombed and strafed enemy positions for 4 straight days without a loss of one plane.

After Tarawa the “High Hatters” of VF-1 spent the next few months on Oahu before joining the USS Yorktown. From May 29th to August 2nd while flying off Yorktown, VF-1 amassed a record of 101 enemy planes destroyed with 19 more probables. They also accumulated 61 aircraft destroyed on the ground, 24 ships damaged or sunk, as well as, destroying 26 AA batteries and 7 ammunition dumps and/or fuel depots blown up. On June 15 1944, VF-1 downed 20 Zeros. Then on June 19, 1944, the first day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea, they downed 37 Japanese aircraft with 2 definite and one probable going to Lt. William C. Moseley. Moseley was flying 41438 on the 19th and it was so badly damaged that when he managed to land on the carrier it was pushed over the side.

. The replacement aircraft was BuNo. 41090 with its distinctive 090 hastily spray-painted on the side of the engine cowling. Being a replacement aircraft there wasn’t time to paint the “High Hatters” emblem on the sides. Lt. William C. Moseley was shot down on Independence Day July 4, 1944 while flying over the Bonin Islands.