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RH F4F-3 Bauer Black 8 2024-05-21

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Thread starter Captain Kurt
Start date May 21, 2024

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May 21, 2024

Captain Kurt submitted a new resource:

RH_Bauer_Black8.zip - RH_Bauer_Black8.zip

This is a repaint of the FDGv2 Donationware F4F-3 Wildcat
F4F-3 black 8, flown by Lt Col Harold William Bauer, VMF-212, USMC, Guadalcanal September-November 1942 Bauer amassed a total of ten kills (plus a probable kill of a Zero) during the bitter fighting for Guadalcanal - one of them while attached to VMF-224, and four (plus the probable) while flying with VMF-223. The official USMC listing gives Bauer ten kills, including the probable which he himself refused to claim! He was...