Corgi AA33016 1:72 Corsair MkII, JT537 1836 NAS, RN Sub Lt Donald J Sheppard

Corgi AA33016 1:72 Corsair MkII, JT537 1836 NAS, RN Sub Lt Donald J Sheppard Pre-Finished Diecast Metal display model. Model features landing gear parts for display in landing or in-flight model. Model includes display stand. Applying to join the Fleet Air Arm at just 18 years old, Canadian pilot Donald Sheppard made his first operational sorties in support of Britain’s attempts to destroy the German battleship Tirpitz at the end of March 1944. He was aboard his home carrier HMS Victorious as she later traded the icy waters of the North Sea for a new assignment in the Far East, where the Indian Ocean saw Sheppard develop from a talented novice pilot into an air ace, one of only two Canadian Navy aces and the Fleet Air Arm’s only Corsair ace of the Second World War.  During a hectic period of combat flying in the Indian Ocean, Sheppard was credited with at least four aerial victories, plus a couple more claimed as damaged, shared or probable. One of these victories saw him engaged in a