Possibly the most iconic fighter of the Second World War the Supermarine Spitfire along with the Hurricane was instrumental to the RAF winning the Battle of Britain in 1940. Keeping its popular shape and constantly improving its armament and engine, Britain would go on to build more Spitfires than any other aircraft type during the…
This set contains: 6 x Plastic de Havilland Mosquito Advantage Flying Bases Set of Double-sided Pilot Skills Discs Aircraft Card Doctrine Card Aircraft Trait Cards
This set contains: 1 x Plastic Hawker Hurricane Advantage Flying Base Set of Double-sided Pilot Skills Discs Aircraft Card Aircraft Trait Card Ace Skill Card Douglas Bader Ace Card
When the US Navy and Marine Corps entered the Second World War, they had only one effective fighter aircraft available to them: the F4F Wildcat. Fortunately, the Wildcat proved more than equal to the task of holding the line. The Wildcat was outperformed by the lighter Japanese Zero in turning and climbing, but the Wildcat…
Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington (Medal of Honor, Navy Cross) learnt his deadly trade during a year’s tour in China as a member of the 1st American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers). upon returning to the US, In 1943, he was charged to take a group of twenty-seven young men and form the new Marine Attack…
Lieutenant, Junior Grade) Philip Leroy Kirkwood was awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in operations against the enemy. Flying the F4U Corsair with the Grim Reapers (VF-10) from the USS Intrepid (CV-11) Kirkwood took part in strikes against the Ryukyu Islands, Kyūshū, Okinawa and Wake Island, downing 8 enemy aircraft bringing his tally to…
The F4U flew over 60,000 operational sorties (only 9,000 sorties flown from carrier decks) for the U.S. Navy & Marines and U.S. Navy through the war (some 40% of total fighter sorties), with only 9,581 sorties (15%) flown from carrier decks. Corsairs claimed 2,140 air combat victories against 189 losses to enemy aircraft, for an…
Featuring the rogue British pilot and ACE Johnny Red in his stolen Hurricane alongside the rough and ready Soviet 5th air brigade squadron known as the the Falcons . Discharged from the RAF for striking a fellow officer Johnny Redburn joins the Merchant Navy. Whilst on route to Murmansk his ship comes under attack from…
Josef ‘Pips’ Priller fought in France and the Battle of Britain before being transferred into Adolf Galland’s wing, JG 26. A year later Priller took command of the wing and fought skilfully against worsening odds over NW Europe. Priller claimed 101 victories in 307 combat sorties and gained notoriety as one of the few Luftwaffe…
Otto Kittel flew first in Yugoslavia and then on the Eastern Front from June 1941 at the very outset of Operation Barbarossa. He claimed his 100th aerial victory in September of 1943, his 150th in April of 1944 and his 200th in August the same year. He was shot down and killed in action in…
Hans Dortenmann was a Luftwaffe ace who, after his completion of aerial training, starting serving on the Eastern Front where he scored his first victory. Shortly after, he was transferred to the Western Front where he claimed many more victories against the Allied forces. He continued to serve until the end of the war.
The Fw 190 Dora was a single-seat, single-engined fighter aircraft. Alongside the Messerschmitt Bf 109, it became the backbone of the Luftwaffe. It fulfilled a variety of roles including; day fighter, fighter-bomber, ground-attack aircraft and, to an extent, night fighter.
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger, also abbreviated as Fw 190, is a single-seat, single-engine fighter used by the German forces after 1941. Alongside its counterpart, Messerschmitt Bf 109, it became the backbone for the Luftwaffe s Jagdwaffe. On its debut combat, the Focke-Wulf was superior to the Spitfire V, which happened to be the Allies…
This set contains: 6 x Plastic Hawker Hurricanes Advantage Flying Bases Set of Double-sided Pilot Skills Discs Aircraft Card Doctrine Card Aircraft Trait Cards
Initially a single seater, the Il-2 proved to be a deadly air-to-ground weapon. This variant was to see heavy losses due to its vulnerability to fighter attack. Consequently, by September 1942, a two-seat design with a rear gunner under a stretched canopy entered service. In the desperate months early in the war, the Sturmovik was…
This set contains: 1 x Plastic Spitfire Advantage Flying Base Set of Double-sided Pilot Skills Discs Aircraft Card Aircraft Trait Card Ace Skill Card Johnny Johnson Ace Card