Newly discovered photo of Paddy Finucane's Spitfire

[Alex Smart]

Hi Flavio,

From Men of the BoB,

"After breaking an ancle in the blackout, Finucane entered RAF hospital, Halton on November 14th and left a week later to convalesce at Torquay. He rejoined 452 then at Kenley, on January 19th 1942.
One week later Finucane took command of 602 Squadron at Redhill ( this would be around the 26th January), he was wounded on 20th February in an engagement with FW190s over the channel."
And according to "Aces High"vol 1 He flew BL548 on the 20th February 1942 when he damaged the FW190.

Also, I have recently come accross a simular photo of "W" taken from a different position but cannot find it now again the squadron code cannot be seen but an "LO" a/c is again in the background.

All for now

Alex

[Flavio]

Hi Alex,

thank you for the new details.

Please, I hope you will be able to find the photo you quote, for sure it will be very usefull to help us to solve the dubts about the serial number.

Regards

Flavio

[ham_ac]

You may have already discovered this but the Australian War Memorial Website contains a large number of collections that are searchable

http://www.awm.gov.au/database/collection.asp

As he spent much time with aussies he appears in quite a few images.

hope this helps
ham

[Ledfut]

Does anyone have any color photos or artist profiles of any of Finucane's spitfires?

[spotter]

Has anyone any idea of Finucane's aircraft numbers etc. during the Battle of Britain (when he was with 65 Sqn)?

G

[DaveFleming]

Resurrecting an old thread, but I was doing some googling and found it.

Dugald Cameron's book on 602 lists BL822 as having been attached to the squadron - no dates or anything (unlike the other aircraft) and Spitfire the History doesn't mention it as having a 602 connection, but it could be a candidate for the aircraft in the pic.

[Flavio]

Originally Posted by DaveFleming

Resurrecting an old thread, but I was doing some googling and found it.

Dugald Cameron's book on 602 lists BL822 as having been attached to the squadron - no dates or anything (unlike the other aircraft) and Spitfire the History doesn't mention it as having a 602 connection, but it could be a candidate for the aircraft in the pic.

According to Finucane's logbook, he flew BL822 only once, on 19 March ’42, for a 10 minuts cannon test; probably this test was not successful so Finucane chose a different Spitfire (BM124) as personal.

Flavio