Need ID of Spitfire ??oX FL Wheels Down & Burned on Beach at Dunkirk

[Larry Hickey]

Sharon,

While most beach landings by a/c during the Dunkirk operations, and the later Battle of Britian, were belly landings, there are photos of at least two Spitfires that appear to have landed wheels down near Dunkirk during the Operation Dynamo period, and a few examples of wheels down landings by German a/c on French beaches during the BoB. But, it wasn't common, for exactly the reason that you state (and others). But it definitely could be and was done successfully, including by the subject of this original post.

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator

[spitfireman]

I tidied them up a bit.

Although I have photos of Dunkirk 'landings' they are not ready to hand.

To be honest, I think they are variations to these two. ISTR one shows the Germans burning it for second time. When I dig them out I will post them up

Baz

[Andy Saunders]

I may be wrong, but I think this was discussed here previously?

A possibly significant feature of this aeroplane is that it almost certainly has a Rotol propellor. This is either one of the relatively few metal bladed Rotol aircscrews (they were a mag alloy) or else the wooden-bladed version, which would surely put it rather later than the 'Dunkirk' period?