Airplane Model*Hobby Master HA1706 1:72 P-39L Airacobra “Evelyn” – Miniature Marvels: Airplane Models & Painted Dice

Hobby Master HA1706 1:72 P-39L Airacobra, Evelyn, Lt. Hugh Dow 346th FS 350th FG, Maison Blanche, Algeria, Spring 194.

The Bell P-39 was the first American fighter to use tricycle undercarriage. Also unique
was the use of a mid-mounted engine with a propeller shaft that ran from the engine
through the cockpit under the pilot to the propeller. A 37mm cannon was mounted behindthe gearbox and set up to fire through the propeller and the proper role the Airacobraperformed marvelously and created a number of Aces.

In North Africa the P-39 was tasked to convoy patrol, armed reconnaissance and groundattack with little chance of encountering enemy fighters in combat. However Lt. HughRowdy Dow got lucky when he and another P-39 spotted two Bf-109s. Both pilotsattacked the German fighters and damaged both Messerschmitts. Dow spotted a third Bf-109 and gave chase that ended with the Bf-109 being destroyed. About one month laterhe scored his second kill that was probably the last for a P-39 in the MediterraneanTheater of Operations.