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Re: Spitfire serial number ?
EP716 was another Mk.Vb. Spitfire the History has no record of her passing through Gibraltar, and the timing suggests strongly that she was delivered in Operation Bellows, on HMS Furious, direct from Glasgow. I believe this was the first trip with the DH Hydromatic propellor, with different pitch angles allowing better take-off performance.
I'd missed both references for the codes, but my list only goes up to the end of 1942 so that excuses ones of them! It could of course have carried both at different times - is this possibility supported by dates in the Aces High reference?
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