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F/L Guy A J Beckers

from: Belgium Lier ... details
update: 2026-04-27

F/L Pierre Arend

from: Belgium Soignies ... details
update: 2026-04-24

F/O Albert Herreman

from: Belgium Oudenaarde ... details
update: 2026-04-24

F/L Jean Lavigne

from: Belgium Namur ... details
update: 2026-04-24

F/O Blagdon Cecil Britton

from: United Kingdom Tetbury ... details
update: 2026-04-22

F/L Idris Trevarthen Garrett

from: Brazil Pelotas ... details
update: 2026-04-20

F/L Donald Hamilton Smith

from: Australia South Australia Encounter Bay ... details
update: 2026-04-19

W/C Robert Roland Stanford Tuck

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-04-18

S/L Keith Frederick Thiele

from: New Zealand Christchurch ... details
update: 2026-04-15

F/L Eric Selway Shipp

from: United Kingdom Brighton ... details
update: 2026-04-07

F/L Raymond Lenton Bellamy

from: United Kingdom Rochester ... details
update: 2026-03-27

F/O Edward Kenneth Cam

from: United Kingdom Blackpool ... details
update: 2026-03-27

P/O Donald Norman McLeod

from: Canada ... details
update: 2026-03-26

F/O Hansford Ward Chambers

from: New Zealand ... details
update: 2026-03-21

F/L Colin Frank Sorensen

from: Denmark Zealand ... details
update: 2026-03-11
 
* recent aircraft updated

VP475

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP476

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP477

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP478

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP479

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP480

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP481

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN488

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN489

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN490

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN491

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN492

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN493

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN494

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN495

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

ER726

See related blog post in our blogs section on ER726 linkage to pilot Large. https://allspitfirepilots.org/articles/73 ...

on: pilots, 2025-10-11 ... details

ER726 Photo?

Some research indicates the photo attached may well be ER726, having suffered a crash landing in enemy territory in Algeria. .. ER726 d ...

on: aircraft, 2025-10-11 ... details

Spitfires flown Operationally at 277 Squ

Added Spitfires flown from serial numbers listed in the 277 Squadron ORB's. Added this list of dates to end of Bio/Text. ...

on: pilots, 2025-09-14 ... details

Call Sign Change

SM278 FU-? becomes FU-X in March 1945; TB304 is now FU-? S/L Esau ...

on: aircraft, 2025-09-14 ... details

Identity of man in middle of photo

I have information that the pilot in the middle is S/Ldr Witold Retinger of 308 Squadron. If anyone has any information or knows someone wh ...

on: aircraft, 2025-09-09 ... details

Wrong picture here, therefore deleted

The BW picture is a Mk.XIV Spitfire of 322 squadron and not TB747 which is definately a MK.XVI ...

on: aircraft, 2025-08-28 ... details

ER121 to 241 squadron

4 pilots went by road to Setif and collected 4 Spitfires ER121 included. Flown to Constantine. 22-2-43 ...

on: aircraft, 2025-08-19 ... details

111 squadron

ER171 also in 111 squadron end of 1943 ...

on: aircraft, 2025-08-18 ... details