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Originally Posted by Alex Smart
Hello,
Went through the AB serial numbers for Mk.IX Spitfire's.
Looked only at October & November 1944.
EN
140 - 1 SAAF - 16-10-44.
402 - 7 SAAF - 24-10-44.
476 - 1 SAAF - 21-11-44
528 - 7 SAAF - 6-11-44.
249 - NA - Soc 11-44.
JL
172 - 7 SAAF - 17-11-44.
254 - 7 SAAF - 14-11-44.
304 - 253 - 24-10-44.
346 - 249 NFT
353 - 87 - 7-11-44.
365 - 94 - 23-10-44.
MA
486 - Med - 15-10-44.
526 - 10 SAAF - 16-10-44.
638 - 93 - 20-10-44.
732 - 41 SAAF - Soc 30-11-44.
734 - 1435 - Soc 10-44.
743 - 73 - 16-11-44.
759 - Med - 15-10-44.
MH
534 - 601 - Soc 23-10-44.
647 - 1435 - 22-10-44.
654 - 1435 - 21-10-44.
833 - 87 - 26-11-44.
930 - 40 SAAF - 17-10-44, NW of Cesenatico.
958 - 253 - 18-11-44.
976 - 4 SAAF - 13-11-44.
995 - 4 SAAF - 20-11-44.
MJ
399 - 308 - 19-10-44.
506 - 40 SAAF - 12-10-44.
513 - 43 - Soc 10.44.
613 - 4 SAAF - 29-10-44.
680 - 3 SAAF - 5-11-44.
743 - 73 - 16-11-44.
788 - 4 SAAF - 3-10-44.
926 - 4 SAAF - 24-10-44
984 - 601 - Soc 23-10-44.
MK
406 - 73 - 5-10-44.
486 - 185 - 6-11-44.
627 - 40 SAAF - 12-11-44.
729 - 602 - 14-10-44.
ML
358 - 302 - 14-10-44.
More to follow
Alex
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Spitfire IX? JL346.
27-11-1943
No.249 Sqn.
Spitfire Vc JL346:GN-F
Hit by flak. Pilot baled out over sea about five miles from the Albanian coast, seen to get into his dinghy. ASR searches located the pilot but Walrus unable to land. Later searches failed to re-locate him.
NZ412283 F/O (Pilot) Allen John SYKES RNZAF - Missing, presumed dead.
Commemorated on the Malta Memorial.
See:
249 at War:The Authorised History of the RAF's Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron of WWII
Cull,Brian
London:Grub Street,1997
pp.173 & 265
Col.