Looking for wartime Spitfire in US

[bdk]

That 2nd photo seems to be of a highly modified Spitfire. It seems to have Spitfire paint on it anyhow! Can anyone figure out the ID on that one?

[seagull61785]

Cubs2jets - Many thanks for posting these pics. I already had them on file and I think that your guess of Cincinnati is correct.

bdk - Not a Spitfire but Messerschmitt bf109F bearing RAF serial AE479.

Cheers

Barry

[shrike]

bdk - Not a Spitfire but Messerschmitt bf109F bearing RAF serial AE479.

Emil not Friedrich - square tips and truncated spinner

[seagull61785]

You are correct.

'E' not 'F'.

An unintentional slip of the keyboard.

Barry

[bdk]

This dates the 109 photo:

http://intotheswarm.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... ite-1.html

"This aircraft was eventually shipped to the USA on 7 April 1942 but it crashed during a test flight in November that same year and was finally scrapped at Chanute Field on 26 November 1942."

Cubs2jets - Many thanks for posting these pics. I already had them on file and I think that your guess of Cincinnati is correct.

bdk - Not a Spitfire but Messerschmitt bf109F bearing RAF serial AE479.

Cheers

Barry

[Noha307]

Barry,

I came across another picture of AA963 and remembered this thread. There was no additional information with the pictures(s), but with an Eastern Airlines DC-3 and the "feel" of the background, I'd guess either Cincinati (Lunken) or Dayton as the location.

Enjoy,

C2j

I'd be really ecstatic if these were actually pictures taken at Lunken during the war, since I've been doing a lot of research into just that topic.

A while back, I came across a newspaper clipping in some papers at our museum about two years ago, and I snapped a picture of it to send to the head of the one-room museum on the second floor of the terminal building at Lunken. Luckily, I happen to have a copy of it accessible at home, so I've attached it to this post. Unfortunately, like the pictures you provided, I don't believe it has as any accompanying information.

Attachments

[Baldeagle]

Cruisin' the 'net and...
https://images.indianahistory.org/digit ... 21/rec/109



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[bdk]

Looks like W3119 got around! Caption here says it was in Burbank, CA.

https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery ... f-burbank/

[Cubs2jets]

From the Rudy Arnold collection NASM.

C2j

[bdk]

Cubs2jets - Many thanks for posting these pics. I already had them on file and I think that your guess of Cincinnati is correct.

Not a Spitfire but Messerschmitt bf109F bearing RAF serial AE479.

Me109-E3 I.1.JG76 White1 WrkN1304 (RAF AE479) Captured Strasbourg-Woerth, France November 22, 1939