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Yanks flying Spitfires

Old 23rd Apr 2020, 00:57
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Yanks flying Spitfires

An interesting account of an American pilot flying photo recon missions over Germany from an airfield in the UK.
The Spitfires were not armed; the guns and ammo were apparently replaced by cameras.
He'd never seen the film of his wheels up landing; so when the films were restored after years of being in a closet somewhere in California, he was pleasantly surprised.
If this has been posted before, I'll ask a mod to merge or burn.
My search didn't turn anything up.
The film first explains how this film clip was made (the flight surgeon took moving pictures of about everything, apparently) and a few other things about the armed recon Spits.
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Old 23rd Apr 2020, 01:13
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A nice short film indeed! However, it was posted here in 2013 and also last week!

See here

Cheers OOT

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Missed it the other times - thanks for posting. Brave guy indeed.
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Old 23rd Apr 2020, 18:15
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Nostalgia link should be the primary. We'll close this one.
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