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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London
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| Last action of the Spitfire.. Hi all I gather the Israeli's used the spitfire at Suez as late as 1956.....from the write up on a model kit I built as a boy mind! Does anybody know more about this, perhaps the very last action of the Spitfire, was it here, or elsewhere? |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Posts: 651
| You might want to check out this website IAF v RAF It will give you an overview of the IAF vs RAF actions in 1949, here's a few pictures ![]() ![]() And this website has a nice painting ISRAELI AIR FORCE FIRST DECADE 1948 - 1958 |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London
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| Thanks for this Flyboy, good reading and I dare say I was a bit taken aback! |
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| Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Louisville, KY
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| I'm not sure of the timeframe, but Spitfires were also used in the Malaysian campaigns (early '50s?). |
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2008
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| The final military sorties of the Spitfire were mock combats flown against RAF Lightnings in, if I remember rightly, 1962. They were brought temporarily out of retirement so that Lightning pilots could train against slower flying piston fighters as the RAF were preparing for the possibility of taking on Indonesian P-51's and fancied a bit of DACT, as it would now be called, beforehand. As far as I am aware this was the last time the Spitfire flew on military duty other than BBMF duties.
__________________ BlondeValkyrie - Bugger off and host your OWN pictures you thieving twat |
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