Airfix 1/48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb Messerschmitt BF109E Model Kit
Product Description
The item for sale is: Airfix 1/48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb Messerschmitt BF109E Model Kit (with FREE UK DELIVERY).Between June 1940 and November 1942 the small but strategically important island of Malta, situated in the Mediterranean Sea, became the most heavily bombed place on earth when first Italian and then German bombers attempted to force the island to surrender.
Initially Malta’s only defending fighter aircraft were outdated Gloster Gladiators and then Hawker Hurricanes but at the height of the battle, cannon armed and tropicalized Spitfire Mk.Vbs were used to intercept the German Junkers Ju88 and Ju87 Stuka dive bombers which were escorted by Messerschmitt Bf109Es. It became a struggle that was in some ways similar to the Battle of Britain.
Eventually at the end of 1942, the war in North Africa had been won by the Allies so Malta was no longer of such important to the Axis powers and the bombing stopped allowing the starving civil population to be re-supplied by sea.
Includes Paints, Poly Cement & Brushes.
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