Subject: Re: B-25 Lend/Lease
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To: "steffen tittmann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:02:39 -0700

Hi,
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: steffen tittmann 
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  Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 4:53 AM
  Subject: B-25 Lend/Lease

    
  "1/48 Italeri North American B-25 

  "Lend / Lease" 

  by Steffen "Little Airwolf" Tittmann
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  North American B-25D "Mitchell"
  Lend/Lease 337. APDD UdSSR
  To the Original:
  The airplane belonged to the pilot, second lieutenant Arkadi Mogilnitskiy, Hungary, spring 1945. The North American B-25D-30 ' red 85 ' became its personal machine in the 337. APDD (in December 1943 pieces to the 35th GvAPDD were renamed, but then again as 251. GvBAP back characterized). This variant of Mitchell was marked in the USSR as B-25DP. Such machines were a mixture from D and J, differences gave it only in the armament. The production line of the standard armament included locally specified mg on the sides of the cockpit also. These were developed in the USSR before delivering to the combat units. All lower surfaces were neutralgrey and the top sides in olivdrab, those colors of US Air Force were maintained. The Nose kind was painted upon the request of the pilot only on the pilot side. It existed by the head of a tiger with yellow (supposed) heart as background.

  The descriptions in red one reads "Za krov ' Vityebska" (for the blood of Witebsk). Witebsk was Mogilnitskiys hometown. The arrow was white. Tactical NR. 85 in red was white bordered. The seriennummer. 43-33729 on the fins was green re-painted over. The red stars with red-white edge on the wing and the trunk sides. The nose gear wheel disk was white and the red star carried a white edge. This airplane was flown from Mogilnitskiy to the victory day and also later, than its regiment was stationed in Hungary.

  Altogether during the Lend/Lease to the USSR 870 B-25 of all versions were supplied. In the last weeks of the war the employments of the Russian B-25 concentrated on East Prussia and the realm area. Several times Soviet B-25 attacked the realm capital Berlin in the flight. Because of cold weather some B-25 of the Soviet air forces were equipped with adjustable air intakes before the radial engine, which one could remove in the warm season again. Such air intakes were already used standard to the Lisunow Li-2 (Soviet manufacture under licence of the DC-3).

  To the model:

  The Italeri kit NR. 2650 comes from Accurate Miniatures and is just as developed as the kit of the B-25B "Doollittle Raid". It is to be stated however that at the parts more burr is than with the Accurate Miniatures kit. The so convincing thing for me was only that in the kit 2 parts were missing, which are very important for the building of a B-25D. These are the two rear windows with the defensive weapons, which I had from a good friend from its kit of a B-25J to be sent be able. I began with the bonding of the parts into the two trunk halves. Looks good, one has later nothing of it. Harm, but it unfortunately does not go differently. After up to the missing windows all parts are appropriate in the trunk halves, I began to stick thereby the cockpit together. This time also again OOB that is called without etched and resin parts. Since Italeri unfortunately put no B-25 D variant into the kit, but after my documents a b-version, I had to procure myself from an acquaintance the lateral on-board contactor windows and to reproduce the curvatures at these with my wax putty equipment. These windows were on both sides of the trunk, but some smaller windows (oval and round on both sides) no more attached in the original. With me this were also over-painted later. Then the way for the GAZ-67B was trained. In addition the grass mat was moistened along the traces and scratched then with a tinkering measurer the grass down. Since it concerns an old Air Force airfield, it will have given probably also a grave of a German soldier. The commissioner reads out from the "Prawda". The submachine guns at the tree, are captured German storm rifles MPi-44 and originate from the Tamiya kit of the German infantry.

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