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Post by andym on Sept 16, 2019 10:07:58 GMT
The details for Fw190 PN999 seem to be wrong. This was surely w/n 2596? The details given relate to the incorrectly quoted w/n 584219 (the machine at the RAF Museum)
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Sept 16, 2019 12:48:47 GMT
Correct Andy
PN999 had STKZ CL+QH and full WNr 0152.596 making it an A-5 subtype
I don't know why that mistake was made in the register book. The aircraft at the Museum is a F-8/U1 subtype (a converted two-seater) so quite different.
Cheers Stig
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Post by andym on Dec 8, 2020 11:38:41 GMT
Bf109 RN228 is WNr. 10639, not 1039 as listed.
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Post by andym on Jan 15, 2021 13:03:30 GMT
A thread on AB-IX concerns the loss of Anson PH864, and corrects the date:
[actually, the date of 9 May 50 turned out to be correct]
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Post by andym on Mar 26, 2021 17:24:29 GMT
The entry for Tempest II PR841 says 20 (Sqn), swung on landing and undercarriage collapsed, Agra, 2.12.46. However, on Page 208 of the 30 Sqn history "Flat Out" there is a photo of (a damaged) PR841 "apparently withdrawn from service". It wears the code RS-A of 30 Sqn. I would imagine this photo was taken after the above-mentioned event. Was the 20 Sqn entry a typo (they did operate Tempests), or did it pass from 20 Sqn to 30 Sqn?
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Mar 26, 2021 18:38:50 GMT
Interesting question Andy
All my sources says No 20 and 30 Sq shared base at Agra. Since No 30 Sq disbanded on 1 Dec 1946, the aircraft could not have belonged to that unit the day after. My guess is that all aircraft which remained at the base thus belonged to No 20Sq on 2 Dec Probably nobody had had time to repaint this aircraft, if it is this accident that is shown. (I don't have the book in question)
Equally possible is it that the two units had a sort of pool of aircraft (I notice PR841 is not listed with 30Sq at all, just as you say) Is it a typo in the book, ie it should actually read 30/20? The AM 78 forms are usually pretty useless for aircraft going abroad so a check in the two units ORBs is probably what remains.
I also notice that Chris Shores and Chris Thomas in their Typhoon/Tempest book also says it was w/o in a landing accident with No 20Sq on 2.12.1946 and adds the pilot was F/S J. Birnie
Cheers Stig
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Post by andym on Mar 27, 2021 12:54:33 GMT
Stig, Thanks. Looks like you hit the nail on the head. There is a note in the 20 Sqn Summary of Events for Nov 46 that says: "This month Nos 20 & 30 Squadrons have, in anticipation of an official amalgamation, worked together as one Squadron. This Form 540 has there-fore been completed for both Squadrons" Unfortunately there are no notes for Dec 46! However, F/S Birnie is mentioned in Jan 47 (he returned from Peshawar in the Harvard on 1 Jan 47). The fact still remains that PR841 appears to have been on the strength of 30 Sqn for a while, evidenced by the RS-A code. Andy
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Post by andym on Dec 14, 2021 15:08:59 GMT
The correct date of the loss of 208 Sqn Spitfire PT432 over Italy was 26.9.44 - confirmed by ORB
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Post by andym on Jun 3, 2022 13:33:43 GMT
PF431 of 105 Sqn was lost on 2.1.45, not 1.1.45. Sources: ORB, BCL Vol 5 (take off 1739) The Form 78 is a day later at 3.1.45, as is often the case.
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Post by andym on Oct 27, 2022 10:44:24 GMT
Found elsewhere by chance, there is a typo in the entry for RR343. The reference to 148 Sqn should read 149 Sqn.
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