D-Day Spitfire Strafing "The Longest Day"
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Загружено: 2022-06-07
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, the U.S., Britain, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The longest day."
—Michael Daly
Four Spitfires were used in the strafing sequence. They were all ex-Belgian target tugs and all were MK9s. The serial numbers were MH415, MK297, MK923 and MH434 and all except MK297 are, as of this writing, still extant, the MK297 was destroyed in a hanger fire, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, February 1993.The aircraft were assembled and coordinated by former Free French Spitfire pilot Pierre Laureys, who flew with the 340 Squadron, a Free French unit in the RAF . The four Spitfires were, of course, repainted in 340 Squadron markings. Spitfire MK923 was owned by Oscar winner Cliff Robertson from 1963-98.
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