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I built plastic airplane models when I was a young teenager, was particularly fond of WW2 era planes, all in 1:72 scale. My favorites were the P-38 Lightning and the B-25 Mitchell. The sky (my bedroom ceiling) was dominated by a B-17 Flying Fortress being attacked by Fokker and Messerschmidt fighter planes. Bullet and flack holes evident in the fuselage of the bomber, made with the heated point of a drafting compass. But that old beast just kept flying, knocking back it's attackers with .50 caliber machine gun fire, one Fokker going down in paper flames and cottonball smoke.

When I lived in Utah, a B-25 Mitchell when one was put on display in the Hill AFB museum, a ground attack plane. It had six .50s, three in each wing, two .50s and a 75mm cannon in the nose, the usual tail, and topside twin-.50 turrets along with forward-facing fuselage-mounted .50s too. Freaking awesome firepower. I wouldn't want to be it's target, that's for sure.