US Navy PB4Y-1

This new 1/144 scale Minicraft kit represents a U.S. Navy Liberator designated PB4Y-1 U. S. Navy patrol bomber operating in the North Atlantic in WWII. This aircraft dubbed “Calvert & Coke” by the crew was lost in 1944 after attacking a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.

 This kit features recently revised tooling representing the early Liberator with a “greenhouse nose” and includes markings for the “Calvert and Coke” a US Navy aircraft and an RAF aircraft from British Costal Command in WWII.

 Markings included in this kit are:
 

US Navy PB4Y-1, VB-103, England, 1943 “Calvert and Coke”

US Navy PB4Y-1, Naval Modification Unit, Pennsylvania, ca. 1948