e-bay WW2 Battle of Britain Photo Album from N Franks
2025-07-22
The listing is here for as long as it's available.
Various pilots in the album are on our site already, and, we've placed some of these photo snippets to the pilots page before they are lost to the online world. So if nothing else, this was a good source for one of our contributors.
When a piece of Spitfire pilot related history is placed for sale, and, we're alerted, we'll put a link up here so that Spitfire enthusiasts from this site may consider it. The provenance / authenticity of something on e-bay is not a given, so it's up to buyers to do their due diligence.
Kurt
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by: Adrian Dwyer Sold! 2025-07-22 19:16:43
Evening All. The album sold shortly after being highlighted here. I would like to have known more about its provenance - as it's not clear exactly when it was compiled or exactly where the photos came from. However, some very interesting images; and one particularly poignant to me. Ronald Edward Bary was killed flying Spitfires in Italy on 12 April 1945. It seems he was flying MT685. My Father-in-Law (Blagdon Cecil Britton, of 145 Squadron) had been flying a similar mission, three-days earlier in MT686: recorded in his logbook as 'Rail cut Oderzo - Casarsa'.
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