PT Boats accessory sets
The PT
Boats (PT stands for Patrol Torpedo) Boats were used by the US Navy throughout
WW2 and achieved their biggest success mainly in the Pacific Theatre of
Operations (PTO). These rather small and unexpensive vessels were mainly tasked
with taking on enemy's surface vessels even though they were also used to shell
onshore targets. One of the best known PT Boats is the PT-109 which cres fought
under the command of John Fitzgerald Kennedy who later became a presidend of
the USA. During a mission in the Solomon Islands area on 2 August 1943, PT-109
was rammed, cut in half and sunk by the Japanese Amagiri destroyer. Kennedy and
his crewmates had to find a hiding place on an island near New Georgia and try
and survive for several days there having no food before they had been found
and rescued.
Revell's widely liked
model kit of the PT Boats will no doubt benefit from the addition of some or
all of our sets which definitely raise their detail levels much further. One of
the latests sets that is going to become available this month is also N72044 -
anti aircraft and anti ship 40mm Bofors gun.
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