Mark

As they say in Grease….

“Tell me more, tell me more”

Please!

I seem to recall that there was Czech book about Preucil which roughly translated was “The Stolen Hurricane” It appears his orders from the Gestapo were to steal a Hurricane fitted with Cannon so that they could test the effectiveness of said weapon.

Obviously at an OTU this would have not been possible, so prehaps he went with the best he could get

Nitam

I was interested in your post

What was the source of your info?

If it was a book, i would like to know which one!

Thanks

Paul

Tom

Thanks for the imput..

As you are nearer and get up close and dirty to the real thing more than me.. Why are you sure it is an early Va now???

Paul

Tom

I will look up those, But I think I only quoted those where there were a POW. As if the pilot was killed or bailed out in the water and rescued. The plane would not be in such a good condition!

Paul

Firstly

According to “The History” R7259 was a VA

So it now comes down to either what Mark it is or what Sqn it is!

I can help with Sqns.. 81 Sqn only reformed in UK in 29 July 1941, so if Tom, is right about the wheat, then this is to late.. Also it only had VA’s from Jan 42. I think we can discount 81 Sqn

So it is either 91 Sqn (DL) or 54 Sqn (KL) I also think that that the first letter is not a ‘D’, it looks straight like a ‘K’ . So I am sure it is a 54 Sqn machine

BTW both 91 Sqn and 54 Sqn had Spitfire IIA’s and VA’s

However, 81 Sqn gave up IIA by May 1941 (VA’s from Mar 41) and
54 San had IIA from Feb 41 to May 41 and VA from May 41 to Aug 41

I cannot find any 91 sqn loss from Feb 1941 to until August 1941 that is likely, where Pilot POW

So I still think 54 Sqn.. That leaves us with either Spit IIa or Va
and there are better people on this forum to ID that thanme!

54 Sqn had codes KL as well

dunno when they changed…

hold on oh yes I do

KL from Mar 1939 to at ?? (Spits: I, IIA, IIB, VA amd VB)
DL from Sept 1942 (Spit VC)

So if 54 Sqn.. then KL-E

So we would be looking for 54 Sqn losses where pilot POW in “summer”..

June 25th 1941

Spitfire V – W/C J R Kayll DSO DFC PoW, R7259 Circus 23, shot down near St. Omer
Spitfire Vb Sgt Beresford POW W3323 Shot down over France

July 9th 1941

Spitfire Va P/O Batchelor POW R7269 Circus 41 In Combat

July 11th 1941

Spit Vb F/Lt P M Gardner DFC P8744 POW ‘Shot down and wounded’

12 July 1941

Spit V Sgt F E Tulit R7225 POW

22 July 1941
Spit V P/O Jones R7303 PoW

RE: Fire at Felthorpe Flying Club

0f the aircraft lost..

the following 8 are believed lost

G-APKN Auster 4/5/G/J/1 series
G-ATKZ Tipsy Nipper
G-BJLH Piper PA-18
G-BRAW Pitts Special
G-BWHH Piper PA-18
G-COWS ARV-1 Super 2
G-DHCI de Havilland Canada DHC-1
G-FANC Fairchild 24 Argus

plus

an unknown Emeraude

Source: Air Britain