Martin B-10 1/72 Scale Model

Dutch Model 139WH-2 - This is a model of a bomber that flew against the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies in early 1942. The B-10 was the first all-metal monoplane bomber when it entered service with the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1934, but it never saw combat flying for the U.S.A. However its export variant, the Model 139, saw combat with several nations. The Chinese flew them against the Japanese in 1937, then the Thais flew them against the Vichy French in Indochina in 1940-41. They saw combat again with the Dutch, who flew them in late 1941 and early 1942 against the Japanese invasion of the Dutch east Indies. The Model 139WH-3, also called the Model 166 by Martin, was the last version produced for the Dutch and had a "greenhouse" type canopy running the entire length of the fuselage. After the Dutch surrender in 1942, the Japanese supplied nine captured Model 139s to their reluctant ally Thailand.

More Photos: Left, Right, Top, Front Angle Left, Front Angle Right, Rear Angle Left, Rear Angle Right, Above Left, Above Right

Aerial Nationalism: A History of Aviation in Thailand, Edward Young

American Aircraft of World War II, David Mondey

Battle of the Java Sea, David Thomas

The Battle of the Java Sea, F.C. van Oosten

Bloody Shambles: Comprehensive Account of Air Operations over South-East Asia, December 1941-February 1942; The Drift to War to the Fall of Singapore, Christopher Shores

Bloody Shambles: Comprehensive Account of Air Operations over South-East Asia, February-May 1942; The Defense of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma, Christopher Shores