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Diorama P-51 Mustang - Ding Hao with pilot and panther 1/32 Pro Built

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HISTORIC STORY

11 January 1944: Major James Howell Howard, USAAF, commander of the 356th Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, Eighth Air Force, led fifty P-51 Mustangs escorting three divisions of B-17 Flying Fortresses on a raid against Oschersleben, near Berlin, Germany. As defending Luftwaffe fighters attacked the bomber formation, Major Howard immediately went on the offensive and shot down a twin engine Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstörer long range fighter. During this engagement, Howard became separated from his group, but climbed back to rejoin the bombers.

More that thirty German fighters were attacking the bomber formation and Major Howard single-handedly went after them. He shot down two, probably shot down two more and damaged at least another two. He continued to attack even after he had run out of ammunition and was low on fuel. When he returned to his base at RAF Boxted, his Mustang had just a single bullet hole. For this action, James H. Howard was awarded the Medal of Honor. He is the only fighter pilot in the European Theater to have received this Medal.

Before the War, Howard had been a U.S. Navy pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) at Pearl Harbor. In June 1941 he went to join the American Volunteer Group—the “Flying Tigers”—in Burma, fighting for the Chinese against Japan. He is credited for shooting down 6 Japanese fighters. The Mustang that he flew on the day of the aerial battle near Oschersleben was named DING HAO! and carried the victory marks from those AVG actions. ["Ding Hao" was an American World War II slang term based on the Chinese phrase, ”挺好的“ ("ting hao de") meaning "very good" or "number one".]

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This is a very beautiful1/32 Diorama P-51 Mustang "Ding Hao" with pilot figure and panther in WW2, the diorama was painted as true detail. The engine of P-51 Mustang can be shown out. The pilot and panther are very rare, they were painted very lifelike.The Diorama was based on a wooden stand, very nice shape and was made very detail as true as possible.