Corgi Fairey Swordfish III - No.119 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command 1945. AA36304

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Our Price:  £39.99 Model:  AA36304 Brand:  Corgi Weight:  1kg Availability:

Corgi Fairey Swordfish III - No.119 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command 1945

REF:AA36304  Scale 1:172   Wingspan 193mm  Limited Edition  New Release  New Tooling

This is our favourite release from Corgi in the last twelve months. Beautifully detailed and constructed this is a truly amazing piece of die-cast modelling. Featuring fully rigged and folding wings, pilot figure and under wing weapons the Fairey Swordfish III from Corgi is a highly collectable and  sought after model.

Later in the war, 833 and 819 Squadrons were also seconded to RAF Coastal Command and were involved in laying smoke screens over the Allied Forces en route to the Normandy beaches on and around D-Day (6 June 1944). Coastal Command even had its own RAF Swordfish Squadron, No 119, which swapped the Albacores, which they had been flying, for Swordfish MkIII aircraft in January 1945.

This squadron was used for day and night patrols seeking troublesome E-Boats and midget submarines, and in fact successfully attacked a Biber midget submarine on 13 March 1945, the vessel becoming the last submarine to be sunk by British Forces in WWII.

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