Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Brits maintaining the squadron

 


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  1. Either North Africa or Italy/Sicily.

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  2. I used to have some of those British Army ghurka shorts, gotta say they are the most comfortable shorts to wear, bar none.

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  3. Is the airplane being stripped for parts?

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  4. Huh? It says guns unloaded 11/7/66 and behind that 48.

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    1. Those 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.

      Nemo

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  5. Info on the middle aircraft: https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/JK866
    Casablanca & North Africa.

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  6. 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."

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  7. At 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.

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    1. The date would be July 11or17 of 44. They do day month year not month day year like Americans.

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  8. 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..

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