Corgi USAAC Consolidated Catalina OA-10A Flying Boat - 443 915 "Miss Pick Up", Halesworth Airfield (Station 365), Halesworth, England, 1945 (1:72 Scale)

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USAAC Consolidated Catalina OA-10A Flying Boat - 443 915 "Miss Pick Up", Halesworth Airfield (Station 365), Halesworth, England, 1945 (1:72 Scale)

Corgi USAAC Consolidated Catalina OA-10A Flying Boat - 443 915 "Miss Pick Up", Halesworth Airfield (Station 365), Halesworth, England, 1945

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Corgi AA36113 USAAC Consolidated Catalina OA-10A Flying Boat - 443 915 "Miss Pick Up", Halesworth Airfield (Station 365), Halesworth, England, 1945 (1:72 Scale) "This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral has a right to take account of facts, even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or close his conscience. I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war; I say that again and again. I hope the United States will keep out of this war, I believe that it will. And I give you assurance and reassurance that every effort of your government will be directed toward that end. As long as it remains within my power to prevent there will be no blackout of peace in the United States."
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, September 5th, 1939

The PBY Catalina was the US Navy designation for an American and Canadian-built flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s. PB stands for Patrol Bomber, with Y being Consolidated's manufacturer identification. It could be equipped with depth charges, bombs, torpedoes, and .50 caliber machine guns and was one of the most widely used multi-role aircraft of World War II. Catalinas served with every branch of the US military and in the air forces and navies of many other nations.

In World War II, PBYs were used as anti-submarine warfare aircraft, patrol bombers, convoy escorts, search and rescue aircraft, and transports. The Catalina can be considered the most successful aircraft of its kind, as no other flying boat was produced in greater numbers. The last active military Catalinas were not retired from service until the 1980s. Even today, over seventy years after its first flight, the aircraft continues to fly as an airtanker in aerial firefighting operations all over the world.

The Catalina was originally designed to be a patrol bomber, an aircraft with a long operational range intended to locate and attack enemy transport ships at sea in order to compromise enemy supply lines. With a mind to a potential conflict in the Pacific Ocean, where troops would require resupply over great distances, the US Navy in the 1930s invested millions of dollars in developing long-range flying boats for this purpose. Flying boats had the advantage of not requiring runways to take off and land, in effect having the entire ocean available as its runway. Several different flying boats were adopted by the Navy, but the PBY Catalina was the most widely used and produced.

Although slow and ungainly, Catalinas distinguished themselves in World War II as exceptionally reliable aircraft. Allied armed forces used them successfully in a wide variety of roles that the aircraft was never intended for. They are remembered most by veterans of the war for their role as rescuing aircraft, where they saved the lives of thousands of aircrewmen shot down over the Pacific Ocean.

Pictured here is a 1:72 scale replica of a USAAC Consolidated Catalina OA-10A flying boat that was nicknamed "Miss Pick Up", then deployed to US Station 365 Halesworth, England, during 1945. Pre-order! Ship Date: 2025.

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 17-1/4-inches
Length: 10-3/4-inches

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Historical Account: "Miss Pick Up" - Operating from its home base at US Station 365 Halesworth in Suffolk in 1945, Consolidated OA-10A Catalina 44-33915, named "Miss Pick Up", was scrambled to assist another Catalina which had been sent to rescue the crew of a downed B-24 Liberator in the North Sea. The aircraft had found itself in difficulties having landed on extremely rough seas.

Managing to locate the other Catalina, "Miss Pick Up" flew over it several times, sending back location coordinates to other units, before being relieved by other aircraft.

She was then directed to try and locate the position of a P-51D Mustang pilot who had been reported as ditching in the sea off the coast of the Dutch Island of Schiermonnikoog.

Unfortunately, when landing to attempt the rescue, one of the Catalina's engines failed and it was unable to take off again or move further away from the enemy coast, so she dropped her anchor to avoid drifting further.

The following day, the stricken Catalina came under attack by a pair of Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighters from Jagdgeschwader 7, with the German jets making two devastating strafing passes against the mighty amphibian.

Thankfully, a flight of USAAF Mustangs chased the Luftwaffe fighters away, but whilst this saved the lives of the crew, "Miss Pick Up" herself was mortally wounded and soon sank to the bottom of the North Sea.