The first Hurricane Squadron to reach the western desert, was 73 Squadron, arriving at Heliopolis in December 1940, they were immediately assigned to combat, replacing the slow Gladiators and prevailing over the Italian Cr.42 fighters, but there were never enough of them. fighters, they fought the entire campaign, often taking off from improvised airfields in the middle of the desert, they usually participated in strafing ground troops when they could get rid of their air duties, in June 1943 they transitioned to Spitfires.
MODEL: Hawker Hurricane Mk IV
BRAND: Airfix
UNIT: 73 Squadron
CODES: R
SCALE: 1/72
PAINTING: El Viejo Marino
TECHNIQUE: Brush
NOTES: My collection of desert hurricanes took a long time to complete, because it was done before the Internet, when information about airplanes could only be found in books or magazines, which did not always reach my country, so it was not uncommon for a model will be based on a single photo
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