Squadron TV is the official RU-vid channel or MMD-Squadron, one of the largest military model distributors in the world. Since 1968, Squadron Mail Order is the oldest and most reliable mail order firm in the United States specializing in military models, books and modeling supplies. For decades, we have offered one of the largest varieties of modeling supplies to the model building and collecting community.
Hey Brandon, will there be an In Action book about the F-101 Voodoo, and will you be doing an all new In Action on the P-51 that won't be an updated edition.
Hey Brandon, will you be getting anymore copies of the Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk In Action book, anytime soon, because, I'm trying to aquire that particular book for my library.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA Thank you for the look ahead, and your observations. Can one convert this Hobby Boss 1:32nd-scale kit of the Convair B-24J Liberator USAAF Heavy Bomber to a model of a Convair B-24H and/or B-24M? Next, can one convert Hobby Boss’s 1:32nd-scale kit of the Consolidated B-24D Liberator USAAF Heavy Bomber to a Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express USAAF High-Altitude Cargo Transport? Another B-24D kit to a Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator USN Maritime Convoy Patrol Bomber in the USN tri-colour camouflage scheme; I some time ago saw an advert of a 1:35th-scale kit of the conning tower and a portion of the hull of a DKM Typ VII Unterseeboot (U-Boat) that one could display succumbing to the fearsome blast of a pair of 160-kg U.S. Navy air-dropped depth charges (this target would derive from Border Model’s 1:35th-scale plastic model kit of a DKM Typ VIIc U-Boat conning tower and deck [BS-001]). And another kit made as a replica of a Consolidated-Vultee PB4Y-2 Privateer U.S. Navy Maritime Patrol Bomber in the USN late-war and post-war camouflage scheme of gloss dark sea blue overall; this one would require a new, longer forward fuselage (Convair’s designers and engineers had inserted immediately behind the B-24’s flight deck a ten-foot extension to the Privateer), a completely modified empennage with a single vertical stabiliser. The manufacturer initially had meant this change for their next iteration, the B-24N. However, the USAAF had declined this bomber variant, opting instead for the company’s larger, faster design: the new B-32 Dominator USAAF Very Heavy Bomber, using the -N variant’s single, taller fin and rudder in lieu of the occasionally problematic twin stabiliser set-up of its predecessor. They also gave the PB4Y-2 a revised turbo-supercharger ducting, and cowling-no longer requiring high-altitude capacity, this would save several hundred pounds in weight per engine-an appreciably more robust undercarriage that also compensated for the centre of gravity concerns on the B-24 and the PB4Y-1, an enhanced defensive machine-gun arrangement, etc.
Hey Brandon, this month marks the 40th Anniversary of me finding your Aircraft In Action book series, and right now my Squadron Signal aircraft book library currently numbers 399 books.
I like it, when it looked like Squadron was going to disappear that was not cool. I used to get those awesome line art catalogues when I was a kid in the glory days before the interweb.
He only survived because he was just lucky! At 102 years old he looks great! But that attitude was what drove the Greatest Generation. Go kill the enemy so they could go home. One thing that historians and most people don’t realize that this generation, with no TV, no computers and often no phone! They could take a car apart and put it back together. That’s often how they got their first car!
thank you Lucky & Brandon. my good friend's father was a B-17 pilot. When I was in 4th grade, we had to interview someone & write a report, and he kindly agreed to be the subject of my interview. He also loaned me a silk map that I could show when I gave the report.
WOW,What a guy and what a story he had to tell.ALL Americans today should listen to this especial this new younger generation.Thank you Lucky because I was born in 1946 because of your efforts during WWII and never knew that until today.May God bless you and yours.
He reminds me the interviews I’ve seen with the Apollo astronauts all those years after the missions. Sharp and intelligent. Thanks for sharing Brandon
I'm surprised this video does not have 10x the views by now. Lucky is amazing, his memory sharper than that of many people half his age. Kudos to you Brandon, and Squadron. The fact that you guys appreciate real history and are into more than just selling model kits is very commendable. You are making some real friends out here.👍
10:13 Thankyou Lucky for your service to our country sharing your harrowing story and continuing your mission educating others and happy birthday to you amen may God continue to bless you. 🙏
