RAF NO. 180 SQ.  B-25 MITCHELL II

WORLD WAR II ATTACK ON THE REICH 

Strategic bombing during World War II was unlike anything the world had previously witnessed.  The British attack on German cities was agreed by the Cabinet in 1942 after a paper was presented by Professor Lindemann, the British government's leading scientific adviser with a seat in the Cabinet, proposing the "dehousing" of the German work-force through area aerial bombing of German cities.  Air Marshall Arthur "Bomber" Harris was appointed to carry out the task and issued a new directive.  As the campaign developed, improvements in the accuracy of the RAF raids were by better crew training, electronic aid and new tactics such as the creation of a "pathfinder" force to mark targets for the main force.

Info:    B-25 Mitchell II - No. 180 Sq., RAF, Northwestern Europe, 1943
Scale:    1:72
Wingspan:    11 inches

Item Number:    AA35309                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Price:    $99.95

Historical Note:    No. 180 Squadron was formed at West Raynham, Norfolk, in September 1942 as a light-bomber squadron equipped with North American Mitchells.  Early in October it moved to Foulsham - also in Norfolk - and it was from there on January 22, 1943, that it flew its first operational mission against the enemy - a raid on oil targets at Terneuzen (Ghent) in Belgium.  Of the six aircraft which took part in the raid, two failed to return.