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ham_ac 21st November 2005 04:18
Re: Newly discovered photo of Paddy Finucane's Spitfire
 
You may have already discovered this but the Australian War Memorial Website contains a large number of collections that are searchable

http://www.awm.gov.au/database/collection.asp

As he spent much time with aussies he appears in quite a few images.

hope this helps
ham

Ledfut 2nd January 2007 22:44
Re: Newly discovered photo of Paddy Finucane's Spitfire
 
Does anyone have any color photos or artist profiles of any of Finucane's spitfires?

spotter 10th February 2010 12:30
Re: Newly discovered photo of Paddy Finucane's Spitfire
 
Has anyone any idea of Finucane's aircraft numbers etc. during the Battle of Britain (when he was with 65 Sqn)?

G

DaveFleming 19th January 2012 02:29
Re: Newly discovered photo of Paddy Finucane's Spitfire
 
Resurrecting an old thread, but I was doing some googling and found it.

Dugald Cameron's book on 602 lists BL822 as having been attached to the squadron - no dates or anything (unlike the other aircraft) and Spitfire the History doesn't mention it as having a 602 connection, but it could be a candidate for the aircraft in the pic.

Stein Meum 19th January 2012 11:46
Re: Newly discovered photo of Paddy Finucane's Spitfire
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex Smart (Post 14858)
Just a little ,

P8722 was lost from 602 on 2/1/42 with Capt. Hertzberg kia.
BL548 from 602 crashed on 20/2/42 and SLdr. Finucane was wounded.
BM228 was lost from 602 on 25/4/42 with Sgt. Green kia.
Finucane was injured in late 41 and returned to command 602 in January of 42, so P8722 may have been his proposed aircraft but perhaps lost even before he had chance to try her out ?Alex
Hertzberg's Log Book has "W" and flying time 0:25 entered by someone else (for obvious reasons) for this flight on 2/1/42.

Stein

Flavio 21st January 2012 18:23
Re: Newly discovered photo of Paddy Finucane's Spitfire
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveFleming (Post 140924)
Resurrecting an old thread, but I was doing some googling and found it.

Dugald Cameron's book on 602 lists BL822 as having been attached to the squadron - no dates or anything (unlike the other aircraft) and Spitfire the History doesn't mention it as having a 602 connection, but it could be a candidate for the aircraft in the pic.
According to Finucane's logbook, he flew BL822 only once, on 19 March ’42, for a 10 minuts cannon test; probably this test was not successful so Finucane chose a different Spitfire (BM124) as personal.

Flavio


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