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By: Smith - 13th December 2004 at 23:58
Flood – date on back of photograph is simply that, a date. May be the date photo taken or anything. Clearly (probably) taken in some scrap yard obviously after both aircraft were taken there (therefore at least a few days after the last one was shot down). So the dates are all OK.
By: Flood - 13th December 2004 at 23:50
And I could (am) be totally wrong and just stabbing in the dark…oh well.
New years resolution:- I must not believe dates on the backs of photographs…
Flood
By: DaveR - 13th December 2004 at 23:26
Hawker Typhoon…
The aircraft in the background is a car door Hawker Typhoon JP961, JX-U. Shot down in France during 1943. There is a clearer picture of it (possibly cropped and blown up version of this) in Hawker Typhoon 126, by Seweryn Fleischer on P58.
By: Flood - 13th December 2004 at 23:03
More searching!
The 129 Sqn Spitfire could well be MH425 which collided with MH441 and crashed near St. Saens, 22/12/43. Not being able to lay my hands on RAF FC Losses vol 2 I cannot help with more info.
Flood
By: Flood - 13th December 2004 at 22:58
Well, it is an old 129 Sqn (not 127 Sqn like in the blurb) Spitfire IX (since they used Mustang IIIs from 4/44) with a recently shot down Spitfire IXb of 1 Sqn (they swapped from Typhoon Ibs in 4/44). My guess – if the date is correct – is that JX-U is MK798 which crash landed on 1/6/44 on an afternoon Rhubarb after being hit by flak near Quimper; F/O FH Cattermoul died 9/7/44.
Info from RAF Fighter Command Losses of WWII vol 3, and RAF Serials MA100-MZ999.
Flood
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December 13, 2004 at 10:04 pm