And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
And info on the foreground bird is found at: https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/EF553. The caption from the associated photo says, "credit: US National Archives. A line of Spitfires Mk. Vc of No. 253 Squadron undergoing service and repair in Italy, 19 July 1944. Note the inscription GUNS UNLOADED and the date chalked under the cockpit."
So by then the Allies had already kicked the Germans out of Sicily and southern Italy, and had just re-taken Rome a few weeks before, advancing toward Germany..
The African Campaign.
ReplyDeleteEither North Africa or Italy/Sicily.
ReplyDeleteI used to have some of those British Army ghurka shorts, gotta say they are the most comfortable shorts to wear, bar none.
ReplyDeleteIs the airplane being stripped for parts?
ReplyDeleteHuh? It says guns unloaded 11/7/66 and behind that 48.
ReplyDeleteThose are 4's not 6's. I write my 4's the same way. I'm sometimes confused about whether I wrote a 4 or a 6.
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Info on the middle aircraft: https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/JK866
ReplyDeleteCasablanca & North Africa.
And info on the foreground bird is found at: https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/EF553. The caption from the associated photo says, "credit: US National Archives. A line of Spitfires Mk. Vc of No. 253 Squadron undergoing service and repair in Italy, 19 July 1944. Note the inscription GUNS UNLOADED and the date chalked under the cockpit."
ReplyDeleteAt first glance, looks like 11/7/66, but could also be 11/7/44. 11 July 1944 would be consistent with the date information as found by Peaowed.
ReplyDeleteThe date would be July 11or17 of 44. They do day month year not month day year like Americans.
DeleteSo by then the Allies had already kicked the Germans out of Sicily and southern Italy, and had just re-taken Rome a few weeks before, advancing toward Germany..
ReplyDeleteLooks like Malta
ReplyDeleteApril 44 253 sqd moved to Italy.
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