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Re: FOV 1/31 P-39 In Stock

Hey check this out guys, I actually found a photograph of the actual P-39 reference that FOV has depicted for their first issue of the a/c in 1/32nd. The photo caption
below:

Airacobra training at Hamilton Field, California, for the 357th Fighter Group before shipping out to England to join the Eigth Air Force in July 1943.
Group CO Col. Edward S. Chickering's P-39 "Saga Boy II" is being started by the ground crew the hard way -- with the hand crank to get the inertia
starter going. NASM
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