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Re: Mk. XX vs Mk. 20
Hello Graham
Price in his The Spitfire Story, year 2000 print, ie reprint of the 1995 revised edition, writes "From 1943 until 1948 the new a/c entering service carried arabic mark numbers while the older types retained their roman numerals."
IMHO it maybe would be better to replace "entering service" with "initiated during that period", if even that is entirely correct. Anyway I'm with Pilot and Morgan & Shacklady that initially Mk XVIII and Mk XIX were known with the roman mark numbers, but I'm not a Spitfire specialist.
Juha
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