Firstly – hi, I’m new!
I have a request for you historians…
I have a chunk of Spitfire P7309 of 603 squadron, which was shot down on 25th october 1940, a small piece of which I am using to have my wedding ring made (cool eh?)
My question is, does anybody have a photo of P7309 or it’s pilot P/O P.Oliver (who baled out unharmed incidentally) or any other related info. It’s a good piece and was shot down by none other than Werner Mölders, so has a good history!
A long shot maybe, but worth asking.
cheers in advance guys
Zwit
By: Flood - 2nd April 2004 at 22:10
If you are going anywhere near the RAF Museum (my advice: take a torch…!) they have Men Of The Battle Of Britain on sale in the shop for £30, reduced from £64.99. Bit rough just for a small pic but loads of info on the men who served…
Flood.
By: *Zwitter* - 2nd April 2004 at 20:06
Thanks for the info guys – I’ll get digging for some books then!
😀
By: Auster Fan - 2nd April 2004 at 19:47
There is also a picture on page 380 of “Men of the Battle of Britain”, 60th anniversary edition.
By: RadarArchive - 2nd April 2004 at 19:32
There is indeed a photo of Peter Olver (note spelling), 84963, on page 152 of volume 1 of The Greatest Squadron of Them All. Another photo of him appears on page 290 along with brief details of the combat of 25 October 1940. A footnote records that in 1972 P7309 was the subject of a major archaeological dig by the Wealden Archaeological Group. Is this how you came to acquire your chunk?
By: DazDaMan - 2nd April 2004 at 19:23
Zwit – I think David Ross’s book about Richard Hillary may contain something about this chap, but I won’t have the book in front of me for about a week! 🙁
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