Spitfire: The Legend Lives On by John Dibbs & Tony Holmes

Author:John Dibbs & Tony Holmes [Dibbs, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781472815507
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

This rare colour photograph of PR XIX PS853 was taken at B 78 Eindhoven in late April 1945, the aeroplane having been assigned to No 16 Squadron the previous month. The unit had moved to the Dutch airfield from B 58 Melsbroek, in Belgium, on 10 April. No 16 Squadron flew both Spitfire PR XIs and PR XIXs during the final seven weeks of the war in Europe. (Major Hugh Rigby via Peter R. Arnold)

A typical example of the type of reconnaissance photographs taken with the two vertical F52 or F24 cameras installed in the PR XIX’s ‘Universal’ installation immediately behind the cockpit. A No 34 Wing Spitfire took this shot of the Bielefeld Viaduct, a primary rail route over the River Werre between Berlin and the Ruhr, on 15 March 1944 after its central sections had been destroyed the previous day by No 617 Squadron and its Lancaster B I (Special) four-engined bombers. (via Alex Bateman)

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