Friday, May 16, 2025

SEAC Spitfire

SEAC (South East Asia Command) was the Allied body in charge of military operations in Southeast Asia in WWII. I came across a model of a Spitfire with the SEAC blue-in-blue roundels: a Mk XIV Spit, with a five-bladed prop, and clipped wings. Being a Mk XIV, it's currently the most recent Spitfire in the collection.

As far as I can work out, this is a picture of the actual plane. It was flown by James 'Ginger' Lacey, based at RAF Selatar, Singapore, in late 1945.

Ted Thorn

The only time you'll see the word 'Spitfire' in this blog post is in this very sentence, but please bear with me ... Have you ev...