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Going to take a look again it might have been the same incident in the Macleans book.
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Going to take a look again it might have been the same incident in the Macleans book.
Ota-based Hunting Aviation Squadron Group (GEAC) 1944
Squadrons: XZ (Spitfire Mk Ia), RL (Spitfire Mk Vb) and MR (Spitfire Mk Vb)
Might be that a pilot and aircraft might not have been paired up. Pilots likely got whatever airframe was available in the rotation for that day's flight.
What happened to all those beautiful Portuguese Spits and Sabres?
Rhetorical question. Same as most others. Scrapped, recycled or sold to rich people as flying toys or engine parts for aviation or boats. Very few lucky ones in museums.
I prefer Super Bock, but in their brown glass bottles.
In Brussels Museum.
I prefer Super Bock, but in their brown glass bottles.
In Brussels Museum.
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"WW1 Colourised Photos
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A Portuguese machine gun post somewhere along the southern shore of the Rovuma River, frontier between Portuguese and German East Africa, 1916.
On this day, 101 years ago, a German surgeon named Weiss led an armed party of askari across the Rovuma River and for reasons unknown attacked the small Portuguese frontier post of Maziúa. Sergeant Eduardo Costa, 27 years old, naval medical orderly and post commander, refused to surrender the post’s supplies, money, weapons and ammo, and in the ensuing discussion was shot dead by a German soldier (some sources refer 6 native soldiers also dead, others that the sergeant stayed behind to allow his 8 askari to escape). Afterwards, Weiss and his men retreated back across the Rovuma, burning the post and a few huts on their way.
Sergeant Costa was the first of 2007 white soldiers, around 6,000 askari and countless native bearers that died during the 4 years of war in Portuguese East Africa (today’s Moçambique), fighting for what was left of the Portuguese Empire. When the guns finally fell silent, the thousands of dead left in Africa and in the trenches of France bought Portugal a seat at the winners’ table and the territory of Kionga, a 398 Km2 triangle of fertile land at the mouth of the Rovuma River, territory lost in 1887 to the Germans.
A note concerning the Portuguese uniforms and rifle in this photo. Unlike the other contenders who wore khaki, troops arriving from Portugal wore a summer version of the infantry grey used by the metropolitan army. The rifle was a new version of the Mauser 98 with an improved bolt system designed in 1904 by José Alberto Vergueiro, an infantry officer. The new weapon became known as the Mauser Vergueiro or simply the Portuguese Mauser. Before Portugal officially entered the war in 1916, around 25,000 Mausers Vergueiro and millions of rounds were supplied to South Africa who used them against the Germans during the 1914-1916 campaigns in German East and West Africa.
(Source - Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino)
(Colorised by Rui Manuel Candeias)
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I believe that's a shield to prevent exhaust flash from defeating the pilot's night vision. One sees them now and again on Hurricanes.
A dead simple fix for a problem. The Germans would have had a retractable shield that worked via a light sensor and nine pounds of exceedingly clever hydraulics running off a cam on the crankshaft...
A dead simple fix for a problem. The Germans would have had a retractable shield that worked via a light sensor and nine pounds of exceedingly clever hydraulics running off a cam on the crankshaft...
Before, during and after.
Looks like the cockpit got hammered.
I build paper models (I posted few pictures of those here and there).Dilema one was a choice of Portuguese Spitfire vs Hurricane.Hurricane it is.
Two was squadron badge on engine cowling-one side or both sides.Definitely one side.btw,if you happen to have better resolution picture or a drawing of any of those badges i can use them
As for flat "shelf" behind exhaust pipes yes,that's a shield to preserve night vision of pilot.If I remember correctly many MkI and MkII Hurricanes had them fitted in factory and they were omitted on later marks.
However many MkI and MkII airframes were rebuild later on to MkIV and that plate stayed on.Many Yugoslav Hurricanes had those plates and it looks like some of Portuguese did too.
In early stages of war Hurricane was often used as nightfighter and had appropriate equipment installed.Of course there were exceptions to rule.
The other "v" hand sign performed by Squadron Leader J.A.F. MacLachlan.
And the Brit’s would have studied that contraption and made it so complicated that nobody could or would copy it. Lol
Obviously a field mod that one of the farm hand turned aviation mechanic guys whipped up and solved the problem. No mechanical university degree required.
I build paper models (I posted few pictures of those here and there).Dilema one was a choice of Portuguese Spitfire vs Hurricane.Hurricane it is.
Two was squadron badge on engine cowling-one side or both sides.Definitely one side.btw,if you happen to have better resolution picture or a drawing of any of those badges i can use them
As for flat "shelf" behind exhaust pipes yes,that's a shield to preserve night vision of pilot.If I remember correctly many MkI and MkII Hurricanes had them fitted in factory and they were omitted on later marks.
However many MkI and MkII airframes were rebuild later on to MkIV and that plate stayed on.Many Yugoslav Hurricanes had those plates and it looks like some of Portuguese did too.
In early stages of war Hurricane was often used as nightfighter and had appropriate equipment installed.Of course there were exceptions to rule.
Here are some:
(^ exhaust stack loose from cowling)
Portuguese Hawker Hurricane squadron nose art detail, with a Rooster saying "Agora Canto Eu" (Now it's my time to sing)
And others at:
[urll]http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/79/11/0#1[/url]
ou vai ou racha=sink or swim
PM me with you email and I'll email .jpg copies
http://flightdecs.ca/A_tallyhoczech.html
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