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Author:  bdk [ Tue Sep 15, 2015 2:39 pm ]
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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?

Author:  seagull61785 [ Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Looking for wartime Spitfire in US

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

Author:  shrike [ Tue Sep 15, 2015 5:43 pm ]
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seagull61785 wrote:
bdk - Not a Spitfire but Messerschmitt bf109F bearing RAF serial AE479.


Emil not Friedrich - square tips and truncated spinner

Author:  seagull61785 [ Tue Sep 15, 2015 6:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Looking for wartime Spitfire in US

You are correct.

'E' not 'F'.

An unintentional slip of the keyboard.

Barry

Author:  bdk [ Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:13 pm ]
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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."

seagull61785 wrote:
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

Author:  Noha307 [ Thu Sep 27, 2018 12:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Looking for wartime Spitfire in US

Cubs2jets wrote:
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

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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.

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Author:  Baldeagle [ Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:43 pm ]
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Cruisin' the 'net and...
https://images.indianahistory.org/digit ... 21/rec/109
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Author:  bdk [ Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:41 am ]
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Looks like W3119 got around! Caption here says it was in Burbank, CA.

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

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Author:  Cubs2jets [ Wed Oct 13, 2021 6:30 pm ]
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From the Rudy Arnold collection NASM.

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C2j

Author:  bdk [ Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:58 am ]
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seagull61785 wrote:
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

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