Supermarine Spitfire

[Wurger]

Strange roundel

FF 10-10-42 15MU 12-10-42 885S Formidable ('O6G') from 10-42 Op Torch with MB146 attacked Douglas DB-7 port engine and centre fuselage on fire Algiers Bay crashed no hits claimed 0616 8-11-42 (S/L JD Buchanan) Bounced over wires into barrier Cat Z 7-4-43 (S/L PA Luing OK)

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1. Spitfire pilots and aircraft database - Spitfire MB156
2. WW2 5 Small Navy Photographs On HMS Formidable During Operation Torch Refbag#4 | eBay

Actually the Supermarine Seafire Mk.IIC. On the eve of the Operation Torch landings, some Seafires had blue and the USA white star roundels painted. The seen one is the remnant of the US marking.

A couple of screenshots ...

the pic source: Seafire Ib markings, Torch

 

[Crimea_River]

Strange roundel

FF 10-10-42 15MU 12-10-42 885S Formidable ('O6G') from 10-42 Op Torch with MB146 attacked Douglas DB-7 port engine and centre fuselage on fire Algiers Bay crashed no hits claimed 0616 8-11-42 (S/L JD Buchanan) Bounced over wires into barrier Cat Z 7-4-43 (S/L PA Luing OK)

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1. Spitfire pilots and aircraft database - Spitfire MB156
2. WW2 5 Small Navy Photographs On HMS Formidable During Operation Torch Refbag#4 | eBay

That's one for fubar57 . Pity that you cant see the last letter.

 

[Wurger]

That's one for fubar57 . Pity that you cant see the last letter.

The MB156 is listed as Ø*6G from 10.1942. She replaced the MB119 Ø6*G that hit the barrier on 26/10/42. The MB156 was written off in an accident 07/04/43

the pic source: the net.

 

[SaparotRob]

Love the detective work.

 

[fubar57]

That's one for fubar57 . Pity that you cant see the last letter.

If I have the 0, I'm in