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DescriptionSupermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb 1941 (38727101164).jpg |
EP122 G-CISV [ Transformé en Spitfire Mk.I de la Royal Air Force immatriculé R9649 Porte le code d'un escadron de réserve (LC) pour les besoins du film Dunkirk ]
Le 27 mars 1943, l'appareil fut sérieusement endommagé lors d'un atterrissage forcé sur l'île maltaise de Gozo et fut jeté du haut d'une falaise dans la baie de Dwerja. Des plongeurs découvrirent en 1969 son épave qui fut longtemps exposée au Musée national de la guerre à La Valette. [EN] Originally ordered on 23 August 1941, EP122 was part of the fourth order placed with the Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory– comprising 904 aircraft built as Mks Vb and Vc’s. On the 8 June 1942 it was crated for shipment to the North African theater of operations. Shipped to Gibraltar on board the S.S. Guido on 12 June it was assembled at the local M.U. and delivered to Malta the following month and immediately pressed into service in defense of the island from sustained German and Italian air raids. EP122 was flown by 19-year old American volunteer, Sgt Claude Weaver III of Oklahoma City, he shot down two Bf 109s on 22 July, followed by another pair the next day and a half-share in a Ju.88 the day after that! Weaver had shot down a Bf109 on his first operation from Malta on 17 July 1942 and rapidly became the youngest Allied ace of World War II. He was decorated with the DFM, for destroying five enemy fighters and sharing in the destruction of a bomber within a period of one week. His score was up to ten before he was shot down over Sicily, force-landing another Spitfire, BR122, on a beach, and was taken prisoner on 9 September 1942. Weaver escaped, walked 300 miles and returned to operations with No.403 (RCAF) Sqdn in the European Theater in late October 1943 and claimed two more victories before he was shot down and killed whilst on a “Ranger” mission in the Amiens area on 28 January 1944. EP122 became the regular mount of Wg Cdr J.M. Thompson of No. 185 Sqdn and took up his personal code of JM-T. Thompson was leading a flight of eight Spitfires on 14 October, which engaged the second Luftwaffe raid of the day, when he shot down a Ju88. Thompson had pioneered head-on attacks whilst serving with No.111 Sqdn during the Battle of Britain and had been posted to Malta in July 1942 with Sir Keith Park, the new A.O.C. EP122 eventually joined No.1435 Sqdn as L but on 27 March 1943 it crash-landed on the edge of the cliff at Dwejra Bay, Gozo. EP122 was pushed over the cliff-edge into the bay shortly after. Subsequently parts from EP122 were recovered from the sea bed in the mid 1970’s. Restoration began and she now fly’s as an example of one of the most significant aircraft to have been involved in the defense of Malta. <a href="https://www.flyinglegends.com/aircraft/supermarine-spitfire-mk-vb-ep122-g-cisv.html" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.flyinglegends.com/aircraft/supermarine-spitfire-mk-vb...</a> |
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Source | Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb 1941 |
Author | Falcon® Photography from France, France |
Camera location | 52° 05′ 45.03″ N, 0° 07′ 59.4″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 52.095841; 0.133166 |
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Camera manufacturer | SONY |
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Camera model | ILCE-7M2 |
Exposure time | 1/40 sec (0.025) |
F-number | f/4 |
ISO speed rating | 160 |
Date and time of data generation | 10:14, 9 July 2017 |
Lens focal length | 33 mm |
Horizontal resolution | 240 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 240 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.5.1 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 18:03, 30 December 2017 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 10:14, 9 July 2017 |
Shutter speed | 5.321928 |
APEX aperture | 4 |
APEX brightness | 1.48203125 |
Exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4 APEX (f/4) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Color space | sRGB |
Focal plane X resolution | 1,675.2573852539 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 1,675.2573852539 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 33 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Lens used | FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS |
Date metadata was last modified | 19:03, 30 December 2017 |
Unique ID of original document | 188D20DCEC2A6098325A2FA9C13CC65D |
IIM version | 4 |