Private Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIe ML 296
Stewart Harris
Piotr Gryzowski
Roman N.
flyer1
Wojtek Zaremba
Image ID: 663524
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Operator: Private - ML 296
Aircraft: Supermarine - Spitfire LF.XVIe
Airport: Slovakia - Sliač (LZSL)
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2015-8-31 by Igor Kmet [Contact]
Camera setting: NIKON D600, 1/250s, f/9.0 at 26mm ISO 200
Photographer's remark
(31.1.2016, 09:12 CET)
Spitfire in marking of the slovak fighter ace WWII. F/Lt Otto Smik DFC - sq. leader 312. sq. was on this Spit (orig. r/n ML 296 - HF.MK.IX version) shot down by flak during strafing on Gilze-Rijen AB 3.9.1944 (Ramrod 1258). After emergency landing escaped captivity and returned to England. Died 28. 11. 1944 as sq. leader 127. sq. during a raid on the station in Zwolle, where he was again shot down by flak.SIAF 2015. Aircraft dis disassembled before transport.
1 flyer1
(31 January 2016 - 10:19 CET)
Nice info.
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