Evalina
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1 22 November 2015, 16:31
Gustavo AntonelliHi mates,
I'm sorry I didn't published earlier, but I was very busy with my work. Hope you like my 1/72 version of "Evalina"
22 November 2015, 16:50
Gustavo AntonelliHi Thomas, thank you! I built them at home! I used Inkscape SVG graphics software, and printed on Testor decal paper with my old HP C5200 inkjet printer. This is the only added value to the building, everything else is OOB.
22 November 2015, 17:00
Thomas Bischoffgreat work - doing your own decals makes the build special and unique.
22 November 2015, 17:01
Hanno KleineckeGreat subject with an unusual story, well done Gustavo !
Do you know what happened to the poor guy Strawbridge , after he flew the plane into the Japanese airfield ? No fun for him I guess......
22 November 2015, 20:26
Gustavo AntonelliHi Hanno, thank you 🙂. In fact, I got two different versions of the story. At mustang.gaetanmarie...20P-51%20Mustang.htm I read that the Mustang was flown by Strawbridge (the story more or less is replied in many sites), but if you take a look here: sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=42138.0 and here:ww2aircraft.net/foru..1-combat-7256-3.html, it is stated that the pilot of the Evalina that day was 2nd Lt Sam McMillan, who survived the war, and lived at least upto the 2000. These later ones seem more truthful for me.
22 November 2015, 23:48
Gustavo AntonelliHere this is perhaps the best summary, with some words from McMillan himself. Sorry, it is in spanish: alejandro-8.blogspot..urado-por-japon.html. I think that this is a direct translation of Mr. Sakaida article.
23 November 2015, 01:00
Gustavo Antonellialejandro-8.blogspot..urado-por-japon.html
I don't know why the link in the above comment is not working.
8 December 2015, 22:04
Album info
Evalina was a P-51C-10-NT, flown by 1.Lt. Oliver E. Strawbridge of the 26th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group. On January 16, 1945, was hit by enemy gunfire and landed at the Japanese-held Suchin airfield in China. Evalina was flown back to the Japanese Army Air Inspection Center in Fussa (now Yokota Air Base) by Yasuhiko Kuroe, a 30-victory ace.
