Blood Red Skies Japanese Ace Pilot: Takashige Egusa
Egusa was born in Hiroshima and graduated from the Etajima Naval Academy as a dive bombing specialist in 1930. He fought in China and was later stationed on the carrier Soryu where he became commander of an Aichi D3A (Val) dive bomber squadron. Egusa led his squadron during the Pearl Harbor raid, hitting USS Nevada, and in later campaigns over Java, Wake Island, Ambon, the raids on Port Darwin in Australia and Ceylon. Egusa met his end in June 1944 during the Marianas campaign, brought down by flak from the USS Lexington.
Box contains one Warlord resin D3A1 'Val' plane and game aids.
Models supplied unassembled and unpainted
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$8.05Blood Red Skies Japanese Ace Pilot: Takashige Egusa
Egusa was born in Hiroshima and graduated from the Etajima Naval Academy as a dive bombing specialist in 1930. He fought in China and was later stationed on the carrier Soryu where he became commander of an Aichi D3A (Val) dive bomber squadron. Egusa led his squadron during the Pearl Harbor raid, hitting USS Nevada, and in later campaigns over Java, Wake Island, Ambon, the raids on Port Darwin in Australia and Ceylon. Egusa met his end in June 1944 during the Marianas campaign, brought down by flak from the USS Lexington.
Box contains one Warlord resin D3A1 'Val' plane and game aids.
Models supplied unassembled and unpainted
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Egusa was born in Hiroshima and graduated from the Etajima Naval Academy as a dive bombing specialist in 1930. He fought in China and was later stationed on the carrier Soryu where he became commander of an Aichi D3A (Val) dive bomber squadron. Egusa led his squadron during the Pearl Harbor raid, hitting USS Nevada, and in later campaigns over Java, Wake Island, Ambon, the raids on Port Darwin in Australia and Ceylon. Egusa met his end in June 1944 during the Marianas campaign, brought down by flak from the USS Lexington.
Box contains one Warlord resin D3A1 'Val' plane and game aids.
Models supplied unassembled and unpainted
