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W/O Fritz George Kurrein

from: Germany Berlin ... details
update: 2024-11-06

F/O Michael Selwyn Jones

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-11-05

F/L George Frederick Beurling

from: Canada Quebec Verdun ... details
update: 2024-11-03

W/O Harry Hannah

from: Scotland Glasgow City Glasgow ... details
update: 2024-11-03

F/O Ernest George Shea

from: Canada ... details
update: 2024-11-03

F/O William John Bentley

from: Canada Ontario Willowdale ... details
update: 2024-11-03

P/O Henry Lloyd Maurice Young

from: Canada ... details
update: 2024-11-03

F/L Mark Henry Brown

from: Canada Manitoba Portage la Prairie ... details
update: 2024-11-03

S/L Basil Gerald Stapleton

from: South Africa Durban ... details
update: 2024-11-03

Sgt Thomas Leslie Hodgkinson

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-11-03

F/Sgt Thomas William Matthews

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-11-03

Sgt James Raymond Doyle

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-11-02

S/L Russell George Foskett

from: Australia Roseville ... details
update: 2024-11-02

W/C Peter Reginald Whalley Wickham

from: Kenya Nairobi Area Nairobi ... details
update: 2024-11-02

Lt/Gen Fred Murray Dean

from: USA Illinois St. Louis ... details
update: 2024-11-02
 
* recent aircraft updated

TE213

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE214

stats: LFXVIe CBAF M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE215

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE228

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE229

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE230

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE231

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE232

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE233

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE234

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE235

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE236

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE237

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE238

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE149

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

Took Off from HMS Trumpeter

Flown by PO Eric Dobson 15 Oct 1945 to China Bay Airfield (Tincomalee) then loaded on board HMS ~Trumpeter for take off to Port Sweatnam ...

on: aircraft, 2017-12-06 ... details

JF364

February ...

on: aircraft, 2017-12-01 ... details

jf364

This was also the aircraft flown by John McAndrew Brodie, 32 squadron , Fegruary 1944. ...

on: aircraft, 2017-12-01 ... details

Photo Credits

Photos from Hinton Brown Italy 1944 Album 1 with kind permission from Tinus le Roux ...

on: aircraft, 2017-11-29 ... details

Correction to Photo Credit (Jeep)

Photo and initial note sent by son Richard Owen, photo (of father in Jeep) I noticed after posting the image, is from acesofww2 site (great ...

on: pilots, 2017-11-26 ... details

pilot?

wow, what an image, wonder if pilot survived? Interesting when an image matches up with the short serial history from the archive. ...

on: aircraft, 2017-11-22 ... details

images

The full credit pasted, but didn't show fully in the images, so all coloured images here credit to: The Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Museum ...

on: aircraft, 2017-11-21 ... details

Image

Found this surfing crashed spitfires looking for the serials, checked up JF805 And found this image. ...

on: aircraft, 2017-11-20 ... details