Operation Dead Stick first Allied troops to land in France. Allied air chief said the glider landings at the Caen canal was the finest example of airmenship in the war.
Yeah how they landed with the window for success so narrow, I watched something on how they practiced, turning and counting in the dark so they didnt get lost at night
ESCI =Ente Scambi Coloniali Internazionali It was a firm that was started in the 1930s but only after the war (60's, the son of the ) it became a scale model sales front. It did not manufactered the models but rather commisioned others to do the work, and sold it as ESCI. Work was also done for them by Italaerei later became known als Italeri.
@@scalestuff1066 It seems that Dead Stick was the capture of the bridges whilst Coup de Main was the glider component so I guess you're more correct than me.
Ah its very easy to get them mixed up though sometimes the sub name fits the main op better. Im not expert myself and I have made a few errors on the videos, I did a belter on the defiant video, only thought that there was one turreted fighter in the RAF and there was another sea going one
Operation deadstick was a training exercise, the actual landing was operation coup De mains It’w an easy mistake to make (not least because many others have made it before you)
Yeah we i was going to disagree but having a quick check Googles saying the exact same thing for both names , so both cant be right, will be an interesting rabbit hole to look into though. Thanks for the comment :)
@@scalestuff1066 there is a lot of confusion about. I’m not sure anymore. The D-Day landings had codewords for operations within larger operations within larger operations. Plus codewords for training missions for those operations (it’s no wonder the Germans had a hard time spying) I haven’t seen primary sources for this and after doing some more research and seeing how mixed up everybody seems to be I’m not trusting anything anymore Nice video btw really enjoyed it
Maybe it was code for a sub area? I wouldn't be surprised tbh. And yeah the sheer amount of misinformation that the allies where throwing out doesn't help either! Either way its a crazy time in history and a lot of fun to look into Cheers mate thank you very much
@@scalestuff1066, This kit, according to Scalemates, was originally tooled in 1978, when Italeri was Italaerei. It has also been reboxed over the years by Revell, Testors, and even Airfix, making this the only kit of an Airspeed Horsa, ever, except for a vacuform kit by Contrail. The kit you built was the latest reissue, in 2014, with the added figures for the D-Day anniversary edition.
This is a poor kit. The overall shape is good but most of the smaller details are inaccurate, and the instructions misleading. For example it includes some beautifully-moulded, dinky little rudder pedals, whereas the real glider used great slabs of wood. You need to look at photos of the real thing.
Its not great no, but its all with have got, I get what you are saying about the small details, I do look at photos of the real thing, but for a scale this small there are certain limitations set by the times in which the kit was made, though things like the doors would be a nice fix, TBH Im quite shocked that an iconic glider such as this has not got a rework in this scale, seems this mould just passes between brands every 10 years or so
