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Here is the latest entry for my series of cards featuring anime, cartoon and video games girls in pin-up outfits alongside World War II aircraft. Here we have Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina besides the American Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator naval dive bomber. Although it seemed modern when it first entered service in 1937, the Vindicator, with its steel tube construction covered with aluminum panels from the nose to the rear cockpit with a fabric-covered rear fuselage, Pratt & Whitney R-1535 Twin-Wasp Junior radial engine, and two-blade constant-speed propeller, was obsolete by the outbreak of the war in the Pacific in December 1941 (where seven aircraft were destroyed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour), was no match for the more modern Japanese types, and was disparagingly nicknamed the "Vibrator" or the "Wind Indicator" by airmen who were used to flying the more modern Douglas SBD Dauntless. Nevertheless, despite its obsolescence and inferiority to Japanese fighters, the Vindicator performed heroically at the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942, where Captain Richard E. Fleming piloted a Vindicator in an attack on the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, and was reassigned to training duties until the end of the war in August 1945. The Vindicator also saw service within the British Royal Navy as the Chesapeake from March to October 1941, when it was deemed too underpowered for dive bombing roles and reassigned to training roles, and within the French Navy, where it saw brief action against the Germans and Italians until the Fall of France in June 1940.As with my other WWII Aircraft Pin-Up pictures, Mutsumi, the M1 Carbine in her hands, the Stars-and-Stripes flag, and the clouds in the background are all hand-drawn, while the plane is printed from an image on Google.

Mutsumi Otohime and Love Hina belong to Ken Akamatsu

Description
Here is the latest entry for my series of cards featuring anime, cartoon and video games girls in pin-up outfits alongside World War II aircraft. Here we have Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina besides the American Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator naval dive bomber. Although it seemed modern when it first entered service in 1937, the Vindicator, with its steel tube construction covered with aluminum panels from the nose to the rear cockpit with a fabric-covered rear fuselage, Pratt & Whitney R-1535 Twin-Wasp Junior radial engine, and two-blade constant-speed propeller, was obsolete by the outbreak of the war in the Pacific in December 1941 (where seven aircraft were destroyed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour), was no match for the more modern Japanese types, and was disparagingly nicknamed the "Vibrator" or the "Wind Indicator" by airmen who were used to flying the more modern Douglas SBD Dauntless. Nevertheless, despite its obsolescence and inferiority to Japanese fighters, the Vindicator performed heroically at the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942, where Captain Richard E. Fleming piloted a Vindicator in an attack on the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, and was reassigned to training duties until the end of the war in August 1945. The Vindicator also saw service within the British Royal Navy as the Chesapeake from March to October 1941, when it was deemed too underpowered for dive bombing roles and reassigned to training roles, and within the French Navy, where it saw brief action against the Germans and Italians until the Fall of France in June 1940.As with my other WWII Aircraft Pin-Up pictures, Mutsumi, the M1 Carbine in her hands, the Stars-and-Stripes flag, and the clouds in the background are all hand-drawn, while the plane is printed from an image on Google.

Mutsumi Otohime and Love Hina belong to Ken Akamatsu