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March 31, 2025 at 1:29 pm in reply to: US PR Spits #1134935

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Thanks Beermat and Spitfireman

The photos which you are linking to were scanned and uploaded by me. The two Spitfires uploaded by Spitfireman were both flown by my father albeit with 1944 colour schemes. There is currently a downloadable movie on Itunes about PA 944. It is called Spitfire 944. A trailer can be viewed at http://www.dav32.com

Here is a link to my collection on Flickr which includes high resolution aerial photos taken by my father in 1944. Please do not look at the nice lady in the skimpy bikini because her inclusion in this collection is entirely accidental.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24554019@N06/collections/72157610764283088/

The aerial photos are high resolution and are best viewed at original size.

Cheers
Scott Blyth

March 31, 2025 at 1:24 pm in reply to: Spitfire 944 #1133896

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Link to Additional Spitfire Mk XI PA944 Related Photos

Don’t look at the nice lady in a bikini. She is not part of the collection and has been included by accident.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24554019@N06/collections/72157610764283088/

The aerial photos are best looked at in original size as they are high resolution scans of original photos from the period scanned by me.

March 31, 2025 at 1:18 pm in reply to: Historic Aviation Forum Theatre…Place Your Videos and Links Here…. #1132563

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Adrian Warburton BBC Timewatch/History Channel

This is probably old news but I hadn’t managed to see it before. The movie is in five segments and this is a link to segment one. The movie maintains that Warbie was downed by flak on his fateful last mission whereas elsewhere there is mention of a downing by an ME 262 pilot. I guess it could have been both as in damaged by ME 262 and finished off by flak battery or vice versa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbna5nM6NHI

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Scott

March 31, 2025 at 1:15 pm in reply to: Cropped Aerial Photos Luftwaffe Airfields #1132002

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Corrected Link

Hello Smith I think the link is corrected and I added a few more photos.

March 31, 2025 at 1:09 pm in reply to: Cropped Aerial Photos Luftwaffe Airfields #1130827

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Thanks for the geography lesson Kenneth! The photo was taken on August 11, 1944 from an altitude of approximately 8 kilometres. One interesting thing about the photo in question is the trompe l’oeil camo on two of the factory buildings. If you go to this site on Google Earth most of the buildings are still there. BTW Kenneth the linked photo which you sent is only large (883 x 1024) size. There is an even larger (2112 x 2449) size available which gives much better resolution.

All the best
Scott

March 31, 2025 at 1:09 pm in reply to: Cropped Aerial Photos Luftwaffe Airfields #1130833

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Thanks All

In answer to your question Pagen01 I have no idea why he or any of the other pilots were allowed to head home with full size prints taken from their missions. You would think that would be a security breach of some kind. My father originally had two big boxes of photos and now we only have one not so big box.

Cheers
Scott

March 31, 2025 at 12:35 pm in reply to: Cropped Aerial Photos Luftwaffe Airfields #1123879

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I have more than doubled the number of cropped photos in the past few days

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24554019@N06/sets/72157623296582738/

Cheers
Scott

May 17, 2011 at 5:36 am in reply to: Operation Crossbow #1040177

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Thanks Bluenoser352

You are right about “Warby.” He was with the 7th Photo Group at Mount Farm for less than two weeks I believe before heading out on his fateful mission with Carl Chapman on April 12, 1944. There is an interesting 5 part program on “Warby” on You Tube called “Mystery of the Missing Ace” or something like that. My father talked to him on several occasions and says they tried to teach him American style baseball which he was not very good at. They would toss the ball and instead of catching it he would take it on the forehead. Glad you enjoyed the photos and yes, it is just a matter of time before we will be able to see it over here.

Cheers
Scott Blyth

May 17, 2011 at 1:40 am in reply to: Operation Crossbow #1040274

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Thanks for the positive comments

We haven’t seen the programme yet since we are on the wrong side of the pond and don’t have the required BBC license. I have probably posted this here before but some of you may have missed it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24554019@N06/collections/72157610764283088/

The collection has a number of sets of high res aerial photos including a set of noball (v-weapons) targets and a low res set of the Operation Dilly pilots from the 14th Squadron at Mount Farm. My father did only verticals from an altitude of about 9,000 metres for standard targets and 4,500 metres for the v-weapons targets. There were also a number of oblique photos taken at very low altitudes by F-5 Lightnings of the 7th Photo Group.

All the best

Scott Blyth
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Lt. John S Blyth
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