top of page

AIRCRAFT PROFILES:

SPITFIRE

CLICK ON THE AIRCRAFT IMAGE TO GO TO THE PAGE

1 SQUADRON

Spitfire Mk.Vb, AX-F, EP682, N° 1 Sqdn, Castel Benito, Libya, February 1943.

​

Lt. "Lippy" Lipawsky

Spitfire Mk.Vb, AX-N, ER874, “Cirecooks V”, N° 1 Squadron, Goubrine, Tunisia, April 1943.

​

Lt.  Schalk-Willem van der Merwe

Spitfire Mk.Vc, "Cirecooks VII", JG720, "AX-N", Ben Gardane, Tunisia, June 1943.

​

Lt. Robbie Robinson

Spitfire Mk.IX, EN300, "AX-9", No. 1 Squadron, Luqa aerodrome, Malta, June 1943.

Spitfire Mk.IXc, AX-8, EN286, N°1 Squadron, Luqa, Malta, June 1943. A/c flown by Lt. McClellan Eric Sutton 'Robbie' Robinson.

Spitfire Mk.Vc, AX-W, JL113, No 1 Squadron, Gioa del Colle, Italy, October 1943

Spitfire Mk.VIII, AX-F, JF421, N° 1 Sqdn, Palata, Italy, November 1943

Spitfire Mk.VIII, JF519, AX-D, N° 1 Squadron, Trigno, Italy, February 1944.

Spitfire Mk.VIII, AX-B, JF322, N°1 Squadron, Trigno, Italy, March 1944.

Spitfire Mk.VIII, AX-A, JF406, N° 1 sqdn, Trigno, Italy, February 1944

Spitfire Mk.IX, AX-E, MH904, N° 1 Squadron, Foiana, Italy, August 1944.

2 SQUADRON

Spitfire Mk.Vc, DB-R, JK815, N° 2 Squadron, Gioia del Colle, Italy, October 1943

Spitfire Mk.Vc, DB-V, JL115, N° 2 Squadron, Gioia del Colle, Italy, October 1943.

Spitfire Mk.Vc, DB-S, JK674, N° 2 Sqdn, Palata L.G, Italy, October 1943

​

Lt. Barnett

Mk.IX, DB-Z, MH544, "Lady Bashful II", N°2 Squadron, Forli, Italy, January 1945.

​

Maj. Finney

3 SQUADRON

Spitfire Mk.IX, CA-G, RK856, N° 3 Squadron, Pontedera, Italy, January 1945.

​

Maj. Golding

4 SQUADRON

Spitfire Mk.Vc, KJ-Z, N° 4 Squadron, Sicily, August 1943.

Spitfire LF Mk.IX, KJ-T, SM143, No 4 Squadron Ravenna, Italy 1945

​

Maj. Brunton

Spitfire Mk.IX, MJ738, 'KJ-R', N° 4 Squadron, Sinella L.G., Italy, May 1944

​

Lt. Burger

7 SQUADRON

Spitfire LF MkIX, V, MJ123, No 7 Squadron, Trigno, Italy 1944

9 SQUADRON

Spitfire Mk.Vc, C, ES354, N° 9 Squadron, Minnick, Syria, June 1944.

Spitfire Mk.IX, 'V', LZ894, N° 9 Squadron, Lakatamia, Cyprus, July 1944.

​

​

Lt. Joubert

10 SQUADRON

Spitfire Mk.IX, MA508, 'L', N° 10 Squadron, Savoia, Libya, September 1944

11 SQUADRON

Spitfire Mk.IX, ND-M, MJ256, N0 11 Squadron, Fayid, September 1945

40 SQUADRON

Spitfire Mk.Vb, WR-R, EP688, N° 40 Squadron, Luqa, Malta, 1943.

​

​

Spitfire LF Mk.IX, WR-RR, PT672, No 40 Squadron, Forli, Italy, December 1944

​

Lt Col  Rogers

 

​

Spitfire LF Mk.IX, WR-F MK1512, No 40 Squadron, Forli, Italy, September 1944

​

41 SQUADRON

Spitfire Mk.IX, X - MA257, N° 41 Squadron, Idku, Egypt, April 1944.

 

Lt Mauritz Hartogh

Spitfire Mk. H. F. IX MH931, No41 Squadron, Lakatamia, Cyprus, 1944

SAAF WW2 HERITAGE SITE
bottom of page