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« on: June 25, 2003, 03:23:48 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2003, 03:25:03 PM »
Russian field being porked.

Or it's in Finnish.


Looks to be a Yak-3 or a Lagg-3
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2003, 06:02:56 PM »
Spitfire mk I or hurricane mk I in Battle of Britain?   argh i can't decide! errrmmm....ok i'll take a chance and say spitfire
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2003, 06:33:12 PM »
French airfeild opening days of the German advance into France. Plane might be spit MK1 and those look like explosions. The far wall has been leveled.

Or Battel of Britain ground strike from Ju's.

Problem is the rudder has the shape of later mark spits IX to XIV.

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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2003, 06:43:57 PM »
hmm... definately looks like a spit.. to me it looks like a later variant because of the higher tipped tail.  But its hard to tell because of the image size.

I would take a wild guess and say its a spit IX and the picture is from Operation Bodenplatte?
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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2003, 07:06:44 PM »
Summer 1940, Spitfire at RAF Kenley. Smoke doesn't look real, does it?

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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2003, 02:43:22 PM »
Spit @ RAF kenley summer 1940, it is:)


   The two larger smoke clouds were added to the photo for propaganda pourpouses, this is a frame taken from a film ( beleaved to be a gun cam shot, althought it is posable it is from a move cam in a low leval bomber), While I am not certain what spit model this is, the shot is a fairly famious one. And I had a request for Gun cam shot's, I have a couple others in the bank and they will come up over the next week.

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« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2003, 03:51:09 PM »
I found the photo at the bottom of this page: http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/august28.html
Great BoB site with lots of info. The mouse-over caption on this page says photo was taken from a Do17.
Good one, brady.

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« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2003, 04:41:47 PM »
I scaned it out of:

 The Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain by van Ishoven

   Thank's:)