I’ll give it my best shot. I’ve already done Chris Doll’s Spit XII. It’ll be fun to do his Spit V. Heading out the door for some errands right now. No such thing as a real day off 🙂

I should find some time tonight though

Dan

Updated KARMIE. I don’t think it’s white as the letters are clearly darker then the squadron codes in the closeup of the pilot on the cockpit door hinge. But I’ll do one with white too.

Dan

Wow! They really were the long and the short of it 🙂

Thanks for posting that Geoff.

I’ll fix the camo. I thought I had the front, but I totally missed the tail. All part of the fun 🙂

Dan

Originally posted by von Perthes
Cheers Dan,

When I clicked on this page, I was half expecting to see you’d done a profile of ‘KARMIE’ (bet you wish you’d kept quiet about those now 😉 )

The pilot is Sgt Clive Roy Briggs (403011), an Aussie, he died in NSW in 1980.

My copy of the photo came from Chris Doll, ex OiC ‘B’ flight 131 sqdn, and later TV & film producer. He was involved with the filming of ‘Battle of Britain’, but not sure how.

Any other sightings of ‘KARMIE’?

Geoff.

Interesting that you mention Chris Doll. I corresponded with him back in the mid 80s for a short time too. He was a Spit XII pilot with 91 Squadron. He and Ray Harries had both been Flight Comanders with 131. They were best of friends, being referred to as the ‘long and the short of it” as Chris was a lot taller then Ray Harries. I’ve got photo copies of his logbook from his 91 Squadron days.

I’ll get to work on the Karmie profile 🙂

Dan