Corgi Vickers Wellington Ward VC

Features Include:
• Detailed crew figures
• Opening canopy
• Rotating Propeller
• Rotaing Turret(s)
• Flight stand
• Moving Rear/Ventral Gun(s)
• Optional Landing Gear
• Wingspan 14.4"
• Fixed Undercarriage

Vickers Wellington Mk.IC L7818 AA-R, Sgt James Allen Ward, No.75 (New Zealand) Squadron, Feltwell, Norfolk, England, night of 7/8th July 1941 wing fire Victoria Cross winning actions.

Having successfully released their bombs over the German city of Munster on the night of 7th/8th July 1941, the crew of Vickers Wellington L7818 set course for their home station at Feltwell and hoped for an uneventful return flight. Those hopes were dashed when co-pilot James Allen Ward noticed a sinister shape stalking their aircraft in the night sky, a Luftwaffe Bf 110 night fighter. Before he could warn his pilot, the enemy fighter positioned itself under the Wellington and unleashed a hail of bullets and cannon shells into its fuselage, leaving it severely damaged and on fire.

On seeing the severity of the fire, the pilot instructed Ward to prepare the crew to abandon the aircraft and as a parting, ironic comment in this desperate situation, also said, ‘see what you can do about that damned fire!’ Ward took him at his word, cutting a hole in the fuselage of the bomber and attempting to extinguish the flames using fire extinguishers, however the savage slipstream