Fighter

No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron , RAF in Normandy

invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:11:56 +0000

Hi All,

I have opened this thread to facilitate a study of No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron , RAF and its participation in the invasion of Normandy. Regular readers may recall that we found one of this squadron's Spitfires on the A-6 La Londe ALG a while back. Here is the still from the footage I found in the International Historic Films DVD "Dropzone Normandy" again:...

No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron , RAF in Normandy

Panzers...

invalid@example.com (Stephen M. Fochuk) — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:46:34 +0000

I am coming across direction to the fighter bombers in the weeks leading up to June 6th not to attack any Panzer columns when out on armed recces. Does anyone happen to know why this was? I suspect intelligence was tracking them to see where they were going, overall, though, a bit of an odd instruction if you ask me.

Stephen

Charlie's Church

invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 23:10:58 +0000

Hi All,

One of our newest members, Ellen Duinker, has asked me to open this new thread:

Greetings from Canada,

My father, S/L Hugh Charles (Charlie) Trainor, was a Canadian spitfire pilot in 411 squadron and then CO of 401 squadron. His obituary from August 2, 2004 Globe and Mail newspaper provides details of his career in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Here is the link:...

Charlie's Church

Possible Spitfire Brucheville

invalid@example.com (Sean) — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:58:16 +0000

Hello there,

As has been suggested, we may as well move this to a seperate thread.

Aircraft in question, correctly orientated with Pat's tie ins:

If it's a Typhoon, a list of potential candidates, to eliminate or...

Possible Spitfire Brucheville

IWM Typhoon Rocket Still Photo

invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:51:31 +0000

Hi All,

When I saw the reference to Livarot in the photo details on the Imperial War Museum site page here, I was intrigued to see if it was possible to locate the ground visible in this photo:

Straight main road, large orchard and three good hedgerow ties brought this location...

IWM Typhoon Rocket Still Photo

Typhoon Gun Camera Footage Found

invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:06:39 +0000

Hi All,

Regular readers may recall a sequence of Typhoon gun camera footage which has been on our 'wanted' list for some time now. The 12 seconds of footage is very commonly used to illustrate the potent fire power of the fighter in its ground attack role in Normandy. Below is one of the many copies of the footage:

Typhoon Gun Camera Footage Found

245 Sqd Typhoon 'MR-K' on ALG B-3?

invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:19:01 +0000

Hi All,

I have found some interesting footage on the British Pathe site which shows a RAF typhoon on an ALG in Normandy. The Pathe film ID No is 1979.14 and is located here.

The typhoon seems to have some kind of engine trouble as indicated by the hive of activity shown in the following stills from the footage:...

245 Sqd Typhoon 'MR-K' on ALG B-3?

No. 332 (Norwegian) Sqd RAF Footage

invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:44:25 +0000

Hi All,

Looking through the British Movietone footage in film ID No. BM44917-10 on the AP Archive site...

No. 332 (Norwegian) Sqd RAF Footage

245 Sqd ORB - June/July 1944

invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) — Fri, 15 May 2015 21:16:22 +0000

Hi All,

To make the most of RAF No. 245 Squadron's Operations Record Book (ORB) which I purchased recently from the UK National Archives for the '245 Sqd Typhoon 'MR-K' on ALG B-3?' thread, I have decided to go through the entire set of four PDFs making reference to anything of note for the months of June and July 1944.

Below are the extracts for first four days of June; Form 540 (Summary) first......

245 Sqd ORB - June/July 1944

Evasion - F/L Henry Joseph Cleary

invalid@example.com (allan125) — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:35:01 +0000

Hello Pat

A little background information for Joseph Cleary - I have a photo of an crashed LO-Z, which could be MH512, but it appears to be laying upside down, in a cornfield, in the same manner as one showing the LO but not the final letter next to the field grave (dated 4 July) of F/O J W Kelly, which could be ML252 (but I don't know the last letter on that one)

J5038 Flight Lieutenant Joseph Henry Cleary R.C.A.F. was a pilot with No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron flying Spitfire...

Evasion - F/L Henry Joseph Cleary

Canadian Spitfire Wings in the UK, Italy and North Western Europe

invalid@example.com (allan125) — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:21:32 +0000

A 45 minute film of Canadian Spitfire Wings from 1943 – 1945 - http://www.nfb.ca/film/wasp_wings - plenty of flying sequences, but more importantly, for me at least, very extensive coverage of the ground echelon, their vehicles and other equipment.

It starts off in the UK showing the mobile wings in operation, and then, after Italy, it covers the invasion and Normandy, before going to Belgium, Holland and Germany.

Outside the remit of this forum, but interesting anyway - in Brussels, a...

Canadian Spitfire Wings in the UK, Italy and North Western Europe