The
night of July 24-25 1943 was the first time the British used bundles strips
of foil to fool German radar in an effort to confuse night fighters to
protect the bombers from interception. That attack on Hamburg decimated
the city and caused astronomical civilian casualties and the old
German night fighting system of Himmelbett which had worked very
well, was suddenly out of date due to the reliance on radar. A new
system was thought up by Hans-Joachim “Hajo” Herman called Wilde Sau,
or Wild Boar. Day fighters would be sent up to look for bombers by
moonlight, flares and searchlights. During the bombing raid on
Peenemunde
on August 17, 1943 about 30 Wide Sau fighters entered a stream of bombers
and shot down 29 of the 40 bombers shot down that night.
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This
is Hasegawa’s 1/48 scale Bf 109G-10 “JG 300” painted in the markings
of Feldwebel Eberhard Gzik. The kit was built OOB with only the
replacement of the kit’s DF antenna with part of a PE fret and a aerial
made out of stretched Sprue. The model was painted with Model Master
enamel paints.
Davin
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