Boeing P-26 Peashooter 1/72 Scale Model

Philippine P-26A - This is a model of a fighter that flew against the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in December 1941. The Philippine Army Air Corp had obtained its P-26s from the USA in July, and had about a dozen of them. The P-26 was the first American monoplane fighter when it entered U.S. Army Air Corp service in 1934. Only about 150 P-26s were built, and most of these were delivered to the U.S. Army by June 1934. But Boeing also produced a dozen P-26s for export. These planes, called Model 281s, were the first P-26s to see combat. Eleven were sold to China and flew against the Japanese in 1936 and 1937. One was sold to Spain and was shot down during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The U.S. Army had almost completely replaced the P-26 with the Curtiss P-36 and the P-40 by the outbreak of war with Japan.

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

Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, Gerald Howson

American Aircraft of World War II, David Mondey

At Dawn We Slept; The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Gordon Prange

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

Day of Infamy, Walter Lord

December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor, William Bartsch

Doomed from the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942, William Bartsch

Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific, Eric Bergerud

P-26 in Action, Larry Davis

Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy (w/CD), Carl Smith

Spanish Civil War Air Forces, Christopher Shores