Unknow spitfire recovered in italy

[micky]

Hello friends, my friends of R.A.F. (Romagna Air Finders) have found a Spitfire crashed near Assisi in 1944.
The pilot's body was found still in the cockpit, he wear his flightsuit and shows red hair. Researches are started to identify of the pilot, witness says he went down few days after the front goes to north. For more informations check the RAF site:
http://www.freeforumzone.com/viewmes...f=61117&idd=82
Any informations will be appreciated, thanks in advance.
Michele

[stefaan]

Hi
That article is in Italian.
Keep us posted in English and we'll see if we can help
Stefaan Bouwer

[Andy Mac]

Hi chaps this is very frustrating - no mention of the recovery anywhere in the UK press.

[Allan125]

Babelfish translates the first piece as:

Assisi, the common one had asked our participation in order to try one Spitfire. Saturdays 22, the group of the technicians, thanks to the testimonies then, have found the mass. Saturday 29, hours 4,30, departure of convoy R.A.F. destination place of impact in the campaigns of Assisi. they give approximately 7 meters of depth are you go back the route me of the Spit and the rests of the poor pilot, thanks to the torcie electrical workers and generators, the digging has prolongedded until late evening. Largest the satisfaction of all the group and the civil and military organs of the country that has collaborated to the event. To short the report documented with photo. While the searches in order to find the identity and the origin of the poor pilot of the Spitfire have been under way. Thanks soon.

cheers

Allan

[Chris Goss]

Has anyone any further information on this as the AHB, British Embassy and RAF Cas Branch were unaware until I told them this morning!

[mhuxt]

Very last paragraph seems to say they've narrowed it down to 3 likely possibilities, two Englishmen and a South African, so far as I can decipher.

[stefaan]

Hi Micky.
Another thing there was no 8 sqn SAAF in Italy but 8 Wing.
8 sqn never went North during WWII
Stefaan

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

Thanks for the clarification re the name's and Unit's.

As I said they were taken from the CWG site and only as I could find no others there that seemed to fit either time period, age (23 & 19) or name .

As for possible date :

Saturday 23rd Sunday 24th September 1944, sorry I missed the date in the original report.

Sundays then were 3rd,10th,17th,24th,31st.

All for now
Alex

[micky]

Thank you Alex, Thank you Stefaan, May be Duncan was a Mechanic? May be he died during a check fliyng?

Michele