Hello Chaps,
Hope you can help me, I found these pictures of S/L Hood’s Spitfire, which scheme is this? Do you know if this Spitfire is P9428 EB-R. The Squirrel Art is great.
The scheme that I added looks like but the tail wing looks black in the photograph.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
By: RAF Pilot - 10th August 2009 at 16:22
Spitfire Scheme
Hello Mark12 and Tangmere1940,
Thank you very much for your comments.
Hope you can help me to identify the scheme of this spitfire also if you can confirm if this spitfire is EB-R P9428.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
By: Arabella-Cox - 7th August 2009 at 20:24
S/Ldr H R L Hood.
OC 41 Squadron April – September 1940.
P9428 a Mk I. On strength 41 Squadron 13th May 1940 – 5 September 1940.
Lost in a flying battle over Basildon when in collision with another Spitfire. Fatal casualty.
Mark
Mark
Sqn Ldr Hood is often shown as having collided with Flt Webster’s Spitfire, also of 41 Squadron. In fact, this is not correct. Hood was shot down and killed, whilst it was Webster who was involved in a mid-air collision although this was actually a Hurricane of 73 Squadron flown by Flt Lt Lovett who baled out safely. The detail is confirmed in the Operational Record Book of 73 Squadron although, unfortunately, publications have repeated the error on a pretty frequent basis down the years.
Just so that you might amend your records! After all, the “Pope” needs to maintain his infalibility!
By: Mark12 - 7th August 2009 at 09:37
S/Ldr H R L Hood.
OC 41 Squadron April – September 1940.
P9428 a Mk I. On strength 41 Squadron 13th May 1940 – 5 September 1940.
Lost in a flying battle over Basildon when in collision with another Spitfire. Fatal casualty.
Mark
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