Don’t remember where I saw it, but I saw it! There is a website that has a picture of Johnny Plagis showing Lady Fowle a “Persian Gulf” Spitfire Mk IX from 126 Sqn. Caption said it was late 1944.
Can anybody redirect me to the website? (I was at work and did not bookmark it!)
TIA
js
By: Mark12 - 3rd October 2012 at 17:09
A couple of original shots courtesy of Tony Cooper’s album.
Looks to be 185 Squadron in Malta.
Mark
By: Mark12 - 3rd October 2012 at 17:09
A couple of original shots courtesy of Tony Cooper’s album.
Looks to be 185 Squadron in Malta.
Mark
By: wally7506 - 3rd October 2012 at 16:38
That’s it!!!
Right picture, but I saw a better version somewhere else.
(At least I know it’s Lady Fowle now and not the Queen.)
thanks
js
By: wally7506 - 3rd October 2012 at 16:38
That’s it!!!
Right picture, but I saw a better version somewhere else.
(At least I know it’s Lady Fowle now and not the Queen.)
thanks
js
By: Malta Spitfire - 3rd October 2012 at 10:53
John Plagis
May not be the website you saw, but if you follow the link below it will take you to a page in Flight Magazine, Jan 18 1945 with a photo of Sqd Ldr Plagis presenting pilots to Lady H C Fowle on the occasion of 6 MkIX Spitfires being presented from the Persian Spitfire Fund. One of the aircraft became John’s own, ML214 named Muscat, which was painted on the nose in English and Arabic, below the cockpit was painted the name of Plagis’s sister Kay. Plagis claimed several victories in this aircraft in 1944, not sure why photo being published the following year in Jan 1945.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1945/1945%20-%200145.html?search=plagis
Paul Lovell
By: Malta Spitfire - 3rd October 2012 at 10:53
John Plagis
May not be the website you saw, but if you follow the link below it will take you to a page in Flight Magazine, Jan 18 1945 with a photo of Sqd Ldr Plagis presenting pilots to Lady H C Fowle on the occasion of 6 MkIX Spitfires being presented from the Persian Spitfire Fund. One of the aircraft became John’s own, ML214 named Muscat, which was painted on the nose in English and Arabic, below the cockpit was painted the name of Plagis’s sister Kay. Plagis claimed several victories in this aircraft in 1944, not sure why photo being published the following year in Jan 1945.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1945/1945%20-%200145.html?search=plagis
Paul Lovell
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