Saturday, November 30, 2024

Spit vs Spit vs Spit

I mentioned in an earlier blog post that, to my knowledge (but please, let me know if I was wrong!), there was only one occasion where Spitfires fought Spitfires. And this was in the Israel-Arab war 1948-9. Both the Israeli Air Force and the Egypt Air Force used Spitfires, and, to add to this, RAF Spitfires were there as well, more or less caught in the middle.

I managed to get my hands on a diecast model of a Spitfire flown by the Israeli Air Force:

And this is, for as far as I can tell, a picture of the actual Spitfire that the model is based on:


If I ever get hold of one flown by the Egypt Air Force ...

Anyone wanted to know more about the role of Spitfires in that war, this is a good book to try and find:

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