Пронајден Spitfire

[avijacijamk]

Некаде во морето во Црна Гора, близу Херцег Нови пронајден е Spitfire. Дали некој знае нешто за ова?

[BORG]

"Everyone else had left, but I nevertheless climbed to 3000 ft, set a course in the direction of Venice, and changed the petrol over to my overload tank. At this point I was heading out over the Adriatic Sea and the engine began "........


"Then, I was tumbling over and over, but I kept my right hand firmly gripped around the rip cord handle. As I tumbled, I saw the ‘Spit’ beginning to wheel around above me. I counted one…. two… three… four… five, and pulled the handle hard. Above me there was a ‘whu-whumph’ and the ‘chute opened just as I saw my Spitfire dive into the Adriatic, smashing itself to bits in a frothing splash, and then leave an expanding patch of oil."......

povece na : http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stor ... 8249.shtml


"The Spitfires of the First Squadron made their first combat flight on 18 August, 1944, from Canne Airfield in Italy. They took-off under the command of their Squadron Commander Milet Protic. They flew over the Adriatic Sea to Peljesac Peninsula, where they attacked German coastal positions. Until the end of the war, the squadron made 364 combat missions with about 1 208 flights. In the process they suffered heavy casualties: from the 21 pilots who completed the training in Lybia seven were killed; German anti-aircraft artillery managed to shoot-down nine planes and damaged four other ones."........

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