Conflicting Spitfire Serials May-June 1940
 

I have a number of photos of crash-landed Spitfires in France and when cross-referring BofF T&N to Spitfire Production List and F540, there are discrepancies so can anyone confirm or not:


21 May 40 74 Sqn K9977 or K9957/ZP-Q (Plt Off R D Aubert)
23 May 40 74 Sqn K9867/ZP-J (Sqn Ldr F L White)
1 Jun 40 222 Sqn P9317/ZD-A (Plt Off H Falkus)

Re: Conflicting Spitfire Serials May-June 1940
 

21 May 1940
https://martinaviationpages.com/21-may-1940/
23 May 1940
https://martinaviationpages.com/23-may-1940/
1 June 1940

https://martinaviationpages.com/1-june-1940-2/

Sources Listed

Re: Conflicting Spitfire Serials May-June 1940
 

Thanks Paul-clears up the confusion not helped by poor F540 keeping by 74 Sqn!

Re: Conflicting Spitfire Serials May-June 1940
 

P9317 was later flown by the Luftwaffe.

Re: Conflicting Spitfire Serials May-June 1940
 

Thanks Andy-when and where? Could it have been the one with the two-tone under wings used for propaganda? It appears that those captured in 1940 have a very hard to work out subsequent service. I have a photo which shows one with no markings, two tone under surface with unidentified German aircrew around it at an unknown location. N3277 had no underwing roundels and not two tone

Re: Conflicting Spitfire Serials May-June 1940
 

This thread has a lot of discussion about Luftwaffe Spitfires:
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/thread...fe.3473/page-3

Re: Conflicting Spitfire Serials May-June 1940
 

Thanks Andy