Academy 12353 - 1/48 USN F4U-4 Battle of Jangjin Reservoir - New

Name: Academy 12353 - 1/48 USN F4U-4 Battle of Jangjin Reservoir - New
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Academy 1:48 Scale USN Vought F4U-4 Corsair \""Battle of Jangjin Reservoir\"" Skill Level 4 - 12353\n1:48 scale plastic model kit from Academy, requires paint and glue.\nAmerican piston-engined carrier-based fighter-bomber with characteristic bent wing design.Built in large numbers for the US Navy and Marines, seeing service in WWII and, the subject of this Academy kit, the Korean War.\nMarkings provided in the kit recall two US Navy Corsairs which crash-landed behind enemy lines.\nThe Jangjin Reservoir is in a mountainous region in North Korea where many Americans were lost in battle.\""White 211\"", flown by Ensign Jesse L Brown, the Navy's first black pilot (and the first African American pilot killed in the war), came down after being hit by hostile fire. Lt (junior grade) Thomas Hudner Jr crash-landed his Corsair \""White 205\"" nearby to rescue Ens Brown but he died at the scene. Hudner made it out and was awarded the Medal of Honor in April 1951. Sixty years after the end .