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Re: Spitfires on the Beach
Alex,
Look at the first "Sticky" post on the Luftwaffe message board here on TOCH. It explains all about the "Eagles Over Europe" project. I've updated it recently, so look at the later posts as well. Many readers of this board are members of our EOE Working Group (WG) who provide advice and assistance with this project on many levels. Regarding the terrabyte capacity photo data base, there are now about 30,000 images in this EOE DB, of which about 2/3 are Luftwaffe, and the rest are WWII Allied and US Southwest Pacific Theater images. We have about 10,000 more images awaiting processing to go into this DB. All the images, when coded into this DB can be retrieved against about 25 different characteristics, making searches for photos very fast and efficient.
I've been researching the ID of the coastal beach crashes during 1940 for both the Allies and Luftwaffe for some time, and have many of the images from them in there, although several Spits down on the beaches, especially during mid-1940, are not fully identified. Some were burned out pretty badly so it's hard to be certain of their ID. Still we've made excellent progress. The two with codes that you noted are represented my many images in this DB. The two that I referenced above come up from searching this DB. I used all of the SN on your list to run a search, and five of them came up; the rest didn't. I don't have a photo in place for one of them, but the other two produce single or multiple photo images.
Hope this explains what's going on. My hope is that eventually photos of all the Allied and Luftwaffe beach landings/crashes during 1940 can be located and fully identified, which you are obviously trying to do with your Spitfire list.
Regards,
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