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On 22 May 1948, over Israel, a unique incident took place in the Spitfire's operational history when three Spitfire users came into conflict. [200] On this date, five Egyptian Mk IXs attacked, by mistake, the RAF base at Ramat David, shared by 32 and 208 Squadrons. They destroyed a number of Mk XVIIIs on the ground, but the surviving Spitfires ...
5 (P) AFU B: No. 5 Squadron RAF: 5 Sqn B: No. 56 Squadron RAF: 56 Sqn B: No. 87 Squadron RAF: 87 Sqn B: RAF College Flying Training School: RAF Coll FTS B: Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment: TTTE B: Wessex Training Flight RAF: WT Flt B3: Station Flight RAF Wyton: B4: No. 282 Squadron RAF: 282 Sqn B6: Station Flight RAF Spilsby: B7 ...
The operational history of the Spitfire with the RAF began with the first Mk Is K9789, which entered service with 19 Squadron at RAF Duxford on 4 August 1938. [ 31 ] [ nb 12 ] The Spitfire achieved legendary status during the Battle of Britain, a reputation aided by the "Spitfire Fund" organised and run by Lord Beaverbrook, the Minister of ...
Supermarine Spitfire operational history; Supermarine Spitfire variants: specifications, performance and armament; Spitfire-related lists
[2] [5] A Hawker Hurricane of No. 81 Squadron at Vaenga in Russia, late 1941. When it arrived back at the UK, it was re-equipped with Supermarine Spitfires at RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh, being declared operational on 1 February 1942. It moved to RAF Hornchurch near London in May, flying its first operation, escorting Hurricanes bombing Bruges on ...
The short range Spitfire was not ideal for the long-range escort missions now required, and in January 1945 the squadron, by now based at RAF Bentwaters, re-equipped with the longer-ranged North American Mustang, continuing these operations until the end of the war in Europe. [11]
Spitfire 21s became operational on 91 Squadron in January 1945. The squadron had little opportunity to engage the Luftwaffe before the war ended but scored a rare success on 26 April 1945, when two Spitfire Mk 21s shot up and claimed to have sunk a German midget submarine which they caught on the surface.
The Supermarine Spitfire was not provided for the IAF until late 1944. IAF was highly successful in flying the Spitfire for bombing operations in the last stages of the war. When British India split into two countries in 1947 the IAF chose to include in its inventory the Spitfire but the main combat aircraft in inventory was the Hawker Tempest.