Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Final product photos, HA8203, F4U-1 Black Sheep Bird Cage Corsair

Hobby Master 1/48 Air Power Series, HA8203, F4U-1 Bird Cage Corsair, USMC, VMF-214, 1st Lt. Edwin L. Olander, October 1943.

1st Lt. Edwin Olander served two tours with the VMF-214 “Black Sheep”. From mid-September 1943 until December 30, 1943 he is credited with shooting down 5 Zeroes along with 3 probable.

On October 17th and 18th 1943 while flying Corsair White 576 BuNo. 02576 “Marine’s Dream” Olander scored two of his 5 kills and 1 of his 3 probables.

The aircraft had a field modified paint scheme and the national insignia had 2 white bars and no blue surround. This aircraft was written off as the result of an accident on Bougainville.







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