Info Eduard 2014-08
Info Eduard 2014-08
Info Eduard 2014-08
ISSUE 50
EDUARD
Vol 13, August 2014
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Fw 190A Nachtjäger
1/48
BUILT
HISTORY Bf 109G-2 1/48
P-39L/N 1/48
THE FALL OF THE LITTLE PRINCE
F4U-1 engine 1/32
BRASSIN
Fw 190 wheels late 1/48
Bf 109G-10 wheels 1/32
US bombs 1/72 . . .
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INFOEDUARD
ISSUE 50
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL 4
KITS
(Fw 190A Nachtjäger 1/48, F6F-3 1/48, Ju 87B 1/144, MiG-21R 1/48 )
8
BIG ED 14
BRASSIN 15
PHOTO-ETCHED SETS 19
RELEASES 29
August 2014
HISTORY
The Fall of The Little Prince
30
BUILT 36
Bf 109G-2 1/48, P-39L/N 1/48,
F4U-1 1/32
ON APPROACH
September 2014
42
IPMS USA
August 6-9 2014
Hampton, Virginia
at the new Hampton Roads
Convention Center
August products
Subjects to talk:
(not only)
A-7/R-11 ‚Neptun‘ Lt. Klaus Bretschneider, 6./JG 300, Rheine, March, 1944
A-6/R11, W.Nr. 550143, Oblt. Fritz Krause, 1./NJGr 10, Werneuchen airbase,
Germany, January, 1944
A-8/R11 ‚Neptun‘ Fhj. Ofw. Gunter Migge, 1./NJGr. 10, Werneuchen, 1944
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F6F-3, BuNo 40090, VF-1, Lt. William C Moseley,
USS Yorktown, June, 1944
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February, 1944
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E-BUNNY´S SQUAT
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, the count de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944) is a world-famous
pilot and author who was able to fascinate and inspire his contemporaries. His greatest work
is recognized to be ‘The Little Prince’, in which, in all probability, he represented himself as
a prince and his wife Consuelo as a rose. After his death, which is shrouded in secrecy much
like the departure of the Little Prince, he was shunned as an author by some authorities. Despi-
te that, his work found its way into the world by its universal merit and de Saint Exupery stea-
dily grew into a legend. This year marks the 70 th anniversary of his disappearance.
The legend, however, masked some features War, Saint Exupéry piloted a photo reconnai-
that were only known to those immediately ssance Bloch with GR II/33. After the fall of
around him. Among other things, his formative France, he found his way to North America,
years were heavily influenced by his bond soon to be followed by his wife. Here, he was
with his mother, a love for his birthplace and recognized for his literary works. At the same
his childhood. However, he lacked solid male time, though, he was accused unfairly by some
role models. This was brought on by the early French of being a collaborator of the Vichy
loss of his father and older brother, and so government. As a patriot, this wounded him
he looked for compensation in medieval kni- deeply.
ghts and the contemporary knights of the air. He began to develop The Little Prince with
He was susceptible to periods of melancholy major support of his wife in their home on
and depression. No women apparently could Long Island. Deliberate urging the disillusio-
overcome the characteristics of his mother, ned Saint Exupery into this theme came from
except for, perhaps, his loving wife Consuelo, his friends, who urged him on to work on the
who had hard time to cope with his isolati- children’s book in order to feed in him an in-
onist tendencies and relationships with other terest in life and to be productive.
women. 1943 saw Saint Exupery return to Europe Saint-Exupéry photographed near Montreal, Canada,
After the beginning of the Second World with an American contingent to once again in May 1942, on a speaking tour in support of France
after its armistice with Germany. Photo: Wikimedia
Commons
He flew to the end of the war (with JG 27), ted on both sides of the front.
and it is known that he accounted for at least About five years after the end of the war,
29 aerial victories. According to the Bunde- Rippert began to consider the notion that he
sarchiv, eight of these were confirmed. One perhaps did shoot down Saint Exupéry. He fi-
was not confirmed, and a determination of nanced his own research into the subject and
another two were postponed. The remainder concluded that he could not have had any-
were never determined or their details remain thing to do with the event, and was still to the
unknown. After the war, he became a sports year 2000 convinced of this fact. And the end
television director with ZDF, and the license of Saint Exupéry was still a mystery.
plate of his car must not have been missing In 2000, in the ocean not far from Marseille,
the number ‘109‘. His brother was the Ger- Luc Vanrell discovered the wreckage of an
Silver bracelet of Saint Exupéry found by fisherman
man singer Ivan Rebroff (Hans Rolf Rippert). allied aircraft. After the aircraft’s raising Jean-Claude Bianco in 1998. The text on bracelet says:
I have the honor of owning Horst Ripper- and an analysis of construction numbers, it „Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Consuelo) c/o Reynal &
t’s journal with his dedication. From them, was certain the aircraft in question was Saint Hitchcock 386 4th Ave. NYC USA“. Photo: Fredriga /
Wikimedia Commons
it is evident just how narrow the radio contact Exupéry’s.
had been with ground control during action Luc Vanrell and Jacques Pradel published
against the enemy. At one point, after shoo- a book in 2008, which is based on new alle-
ting down an American fighter into the sea, gations of Rippert that he did in fact shoot
he used the term ‘Aufschlagbrand’ (fire after Saint Exupery down. What led him to change
impact with the ground) and was promptly in- his mind, I don’t know. And what’s more, it is
carcerated on his landing, because the auto- apparent from the book that the authors did
matic conclusion was that he had made the kill not know about the above described events
up, since he was operating over water. All was documented in various archives, which were
eventually explained, and Rippert continued accessible.
to fly. This is only one small example of how I am adding my small contributions and disco-
activities of the Luftwaffe could be documen- vered documentation to research that is prin-
ted on his website www.ghostbombers.com by
Nick Beale. My interest is not to support ne-
ither this nor that version of what happened
on July 31, 1944 over southern France. I only
want to reconstruct as accurately as possible
what happened on that day. And my only
conclusion, based on the available informa-
tion and on the memoirs of those involved, is
that nothing overly dramatic, given what was
going on, occurred on that day over southern
France. Except of loss of famous author …
Bf 109G-2
Bf 109G-2 trop, W.Nr. 10 501, Stab/JG 77, Bir el Abd airfield, North Africa, early November 1942
Bf 109G 1/48
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P-39L/N
Grigorij A. Rechkalov, 16. GIAP, spring 1945
1/48
Rechkalov´s airplane, especially the one with the nose kill marks, was formerly considered to be an aircraft flown
by another Soviet fighter ace, Pokryshkin. The initial letters RGA on the tail confirm that it was flown by Grigori
A. Rechkalov. Rechkalov stayed with his regiment through the whole duration of WWII. In July, 1941, when
the German armed forces began the war against the Soviet Union, the regiment was known as the
55th IAP. Rechkalov was awarded the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union twice – on May
24, 1943 and on July 1, 1944. He was credited with 51 individual and 4 shared victories at
that time and was appointed the CO of the 16th GIAP. Rechkalov´s WWII score consists
of 61 individual and 4 shared aerial victories. Many sources state that he flew
two Airacobras – P-39N 42-8747 and P-39Q 44-2547. The detailed ana-
lysis of existing photos suggests the theory that Rechlov flew the P-39N
only. The different serial number appeared on this aircraft when
the damaged tail unit was repaired using spare parts from the
P-39Q.
BRASSIN (September)
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F4U-1 cockpit
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AGM-12 Bullpup A
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AGM-45 Shrike 648165
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