Mixed Squadron (Larger Photo)

Laura admires some of my 1/48th scale World War 2 fighter aircraft. From left:

• Messerchmitt Bf109 (Battle of Britain, summer 1940)

• Hawker Typhoon (one of three that, in May 1944, contributed to the shooting down of a Ju 188 over Beaulieu in the incident that founded the plot of Nevil Shute's novel Requiem for a Wren)

• Red tail P-51 Mustang (in 1943, flown by the Tuskegee airmen; the black fighter pilots of the US Army Air Force, which was still racially segregated at that time).

The Bf109 and the P-51 are Tamiya kits, the Typhoon is (I think) by Hasegawa.