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1:1.2 Petite size, U.S. standard clothing size: 1:1.125 Petite size, U.S. standard clothing size: 1:1: 12 in: 304.80 mm Full scale, life-size. Some models of real and fictional weapons and of scientific or anatomical subjects in this scale. >1:1 Larger than life-size. Some models of scientific or anatomical subjects in these scales.
Axis & Allies Miniatures is a miniature wargaming system including both a rule set and a line of 1/100 scale miniature armor (15 mm figure scale) collectible miniatures.The game is set in the World War II era with units representing individual vehicles and artillery or squads of infantry.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces established numerous airfields in Texas for training pilots and aircrews. The amount of available land and the temperate climate made Texas a prime location for year-round military training. By the end of the war, 65 Army airfields were built in the state. [1]
GHQ also published Micro Armour: The Game - WWII in 2001 [2] some 34 years after founding the company. Early on, a competing company called C in C offered 1:285 scale micro armour starting in 1974. Currently, games such as Flames of War and Axis & Allies Miniatures are widely popular and use 1:100 scale mini armour figurines and 15 mm infantry.
Single-seat version, no longer produced, 75% scale. This was a true 'three-quarter' scale size of the original World War Two Spitfire Mk 5. Mk 26 Two-seat version. '80% scale'. Discontinued by 2011 in favor of the '90%' version. The '80% scale' refers only to the fuselage that was lengthened to 80% of the original Spitfire Mk 5.
Midland Army Air Field was a World War II United States Army Air Forces bombardier-training base on U.S. Highway 80 halfway between Midland and Odessa in Midland County.. It was originally named Sloan Field for Samuel Addison Sloan, who leased 240 acres of pastureland from Clarence Scharbauer, a rancher in October 1927 to establish a privately owned landing field and flying school.
Even in the decades after World War I, putting ships out to pasture on the Neches was common practice, the man said. "You will see old sunken barges that 50, 60 years were parked out there, and ...
The memorial, a replica of the state's pillar at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., was by designed by an unknown artist and erected by the Texas World War II Memorial Committee and Texas State Preservation Board in 2007. It features a 17-foot (5.2 m) granite column with a bronze oak and wheat wreath. [1]