Hobby Master US Army Air Force Douglas A-20G Havoc Light Attack Bomber - "La France Libre", 668th Bombardment Squadron, 416th Bombardment Group, France, 1944 (1:72 Scale)

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US Army Air Force Douglas A-20G Havoc Light Attack Bomber - "La France Libre", 668th Bombardment Squadron, 416th Bombardment Group, France, 1944 (1:72 Scale)

Hobby Master US Army Air Force Douglas A-20G Havoc Light Attack Bomber - "La France Libre", 668th Bombardment Squadron, 416th Bombardment Group, France, 1944

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Hobby Master HA4201 US Army Air Force Douglas A-20G Havoc Light Attack Bomber - "La France Libre", 668th Bombardment Squadron, 416th Bombardment Group, France, 1944 (1:72 Scale) "Too much credit cannot be given to these men of the 12th Army Group, Ninth Air Force tactical team who are relentlessly battering our foe on the ground and from the air. They beat him on the beachhead, drove him from the occupied nations, crushed him in his own Rhineland, and next will destroy him in the heart of his Fatherland. It is these fighting men who are responsible for our past successes, and it is their indomitable spirit which assures a speedy and crushing victory for our cooperating arms."
- Omar N. Bradley, Lt. General, U.S.A. Commanding, March 27th, 1945

The Douglas A-20/DB-7 Havoc was a family of American attack, light bomber and night fighter aircraft of World War II, that served with several Allied air forces, principally those of the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and United States. The DB-7 was also used by the air forces of Australia, South Africa, France, and the Netherlands during the war, and Brazil afterwards. The bomber aircraft was known as Boston among British and Commonwealth air forces, while the Royal Air Force night fighter variants were given the service name Havoc. The United States Army Air Forces assigned the DB-7 the designation "A-20" and gave it the popular name "Havoc".

This particular 1:72 scale replica of a US Army Air Force Douglas A-20G Havoc light attack bomber was nicknamed "La France Libre", and attached to the 668th Bombardment Squadron, 416th Bombardment Group, then deployed to France during 1944. Sold Out!

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 8-1/4-inches
Length: 11-3/4-inches

Release Date: May 2013

Historical Account: "Cry Havoc" - Established in early 1943 as a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber Operational Training Squadron under the Third Air Force, the 668th Bombardment Squadron received A-20 Havoc light bombers and trained in ground attack and light bombardment tactics. It deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in early 1944, assigned to the Ninth Air Force in England.

From there, the squadron engaged in the tactical bombardment of enemy targets, mainly in the coastal areas of France and the Low Countries and attacked V-weapon sites in France. It flew a number of missions against airfields and coastal defenses to help prepare for D-Day. The unit supported the invasion in June 1944 by striking road junctions, marshalling yards, bridges, and railway overpasses. It assisted ground forces at Caen and St Lo in July and at Brest later in the summer, by hitting transportation facilities, supply dumps and radar installations. In spite of intense resistance, the group bombed bridges, railways, rolling stock and a radar station to disrupt the enemy's retreat through the Falaise gap between August 6th and 9th. The squadron assisted the airborne attack on Holland in September. It supported the assault on the Siegfried Line by pounding transportation, warehouses, supply dumps and defended villages in Germany.