HA7401-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale item we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in like-new condition.
Hobby Master 1/48th scale Air Power Series
HA7401 FW190A-8, Luftwaffe JG 300, Walther Dahl, Jutebog, Germany, January 1945
Length: 7.25" x Wingspan: 8.5"
Major Walther Dahl initially flew with JG 3 but in June 1944 he was given command of JG 300. On September 13, 1944 Dahl is credited with bringing down a B-17 by ramming it and this earned him the nickname "Rammdahl". This became a normal tactic for units using special variants of the FW-190 that had been reinforced to do the job. Dahl had a falling out with Hermann Göring because he refused to have his pilots and himself fly in terrible weather conditions. The only reason he wasn't shot was the German ace Adolf Galland came into the room and agreed with Dahl. As a result Dahl was demoted to inspector of day fighters but continued to fly sorties whenever possible. By the end of WWII Dahl had accumulated 129 victories. The Fw-190A-8 was the most produced of all the sub-variants with over 1,300 being produced. This version of Major Dahl's Fw-190A-8 has the red band around the fuselage that was called Reichsverteidigung. This was a quick visual method of identifying friend or foe and shows the aircraft was used in the Defense of the Reich.