What new facts will Red Kite reveal?

Well, as co-author of the new Dunkirk Air Combat Archive book, what I would say is that the RAF did massively over claim during Dunkirk but this is almost entirely due to the pilots never having been in combat before and presuming that the enemy aircraft were more damaged than they were. As with our Battle of Britain Combat Archive series, all we do in this book is present the claims and actual losses for both sides along with relevant combat and intelligence reports so that the reader can form their own opinions.
I think what is true is that RAF Fighter Command was heavily engaged over Dunkirk, sometimes in patrols of 30+ fighters (months before the ‘Big Wing’ concept) and during Op Dynamo the pilots were basically tasked with flying a continuous patrol line from Calais to Ostend. One thing that the programme didn’t mention was the terrible weather which prevailed during a lot of the evacuation. This not only hid the RAF fighters from the soldiers on the beaches but also hid the soldiers from the Luftwaffe.

Mark P

The bubble canopy Spitfire has the ‘A’ camouflage scheme which to describe it simply has the green sweeping forwards on the port side of the fuselage. This is evidenced by the wing camo scheme which is quite clear on the photo and is the ‘A’ scheme.
N3200 had the ‘B’ camouflage scheme which had the green sweeping backwards on the port side. The port wing style of the ‘B’ scheme is very different to that in the bubble canopy Spitfire photo. Look at photos of the two preserved MkIs P9374 and N3200 together to see the difference.

Mark P

As has been mentioned before, I think the bubble canopy Spitfire has the opposite camo scheme to N3200, so my money would be on it being a 1941 Spitfire of which there must be plenty of candidates?

Don’t know if these will help, enlargements from a couple of pictures in our ww2images.com library.

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I’m fairly sure the submerged Heinkel 111 is a 115,

No it’s definitely a He111, look at the engine, the He115 had radials!

49/49 and I agree that multiple choice helped with a few of the obscure ones, just as it did with some of my ‘O’ levels! Question 43 has four wrong answers though, so pick the one that you think they think it is, if you see what I mean…

Photos taken from a Be2f.

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It looks like a wartime photo-montage where a Do17 tailplane has been merged with a press photo from a well known air to air session of a Yugoslavian marked Hurricane.