Firstly, apologies Tangmere1940, work and a young family have meant I’ve been unable to get to the computer much recently – it is certainly not my intent to appear rude or ungrateful. Sorry if this appeared to be the case.

Thank you for the information. It is fascinating how much knowledge there is on all these incidents. I wish I could say my interest was deeper, but the crash site is fairly local to where I grew up, and I have an interest in the lesser recognised variants of the Spitfire such as the VI and VII.

The report made me wonder about the circumstances of the incident, and one thought was if some of the development may recover parts of one the aircraft, that maybe could have been used as a local memorial.

Thanks again.

Is anybody able to confirm which marks of Spitfire had the PR canopy, a gunsight and external bulletproof windscreen? Was it just the PR1G and PRXIII? I’ve never seen a picture of one, but is it possible that a PR canopy was fitted to a standard MkV Spitfire?

Also, the picture seems to show a ‘U’ Squadron code. Did any of the PR Squadrons ever start with this letter?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks again.

Sean