Dassault Mystere IVA #2 United States Air Forces in Europe This A-24B — once a

This A-24B — once a frontline dive bomber built to attack enemy shipping and ground targets — was acquired by the City of Portland and modified to carry agricultural spraying equipment

and represented a clean-sheet American approach to pursuit fighter design — moving beyond the wartime reliance on French SPAD and Nieuport designs to establish a genuinely domestic fighter capability

operations from snow and ice-covered surfaces

O-1Es operating over Vietnam were repainted in camouflage to reduce their visibility against the jungle terrain below

Dassault Mystere IVA #2 United States Air Forces in Europe This A-24B — once aThese are 1 72 scale decals for the Dassault Mystre IVA, operated by United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) in U. S. Air Force markings and Southeast Asia camouflage, used as static decoys at European air bases during the Cold War. The story of these aircraft is one of the more unusual footnotes in Cold War aviation history. The United States originally funded the purchase of Mystre IVAs for the French Air Force under the Military Assistance