PL841

Spitfires including (serial number PL841) and (PL914) of the 14th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Handwritten on slide case:"Spitfire Cluster Astrella" media-387626.jpg FRE 5384 Spitfires including (serial number PL841) and (PL914) of the 14th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Handwritten on slide case:"Spitfire Cluster Astrella" Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 5384 - Spitfires including (serial number PL841) and (PL914) of the 14th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Mount Farm. Image...

Supermarine Spitfire PL841 PR Mk XI, Built at Aldermaston.

Delivered to No 6 MU 29-5-44, Assigned to RAF Benson 9-9-44, transferred to 14th PRS, 7th PRG, 8th AF USAAF, sent to 1 Overseas Aircraft Despatch Unit 20-9-44, shipped overseas to NW Africa 25-9-44, asigned to Air Command South East Asia 681 Sqn 12-10-44, missing from PR mission to Moulmein 7-6-45.

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Event Location Date Description

Delivered

29 May 1944 Delivered to No 6 MU 29-5-44.

Assigned

Royal Air Force Station, Benson, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 6AB, UK 9 September 1944 Assigned to RAF Benson 9-9-44.

Other

Sent for Despatch

20 September 1944 1 Overseas Aircraft Despatch Unit 20-9-44.

Other

Shipped Overseas

Africa 25 September 1944 NW Africa 25-9-44.

Assigned

South East Asia 12 October 1944 To Air Command South East Asia 681 Sqn, 12-10-44.

Crashed

Mawlamyine, Myanmar (Burma) 7 June 1945 Missing from PR mission to Moulmein 7-6-45. F/Lt Thomas Woodhouse RAF, missing, presumed killed.

Manufactured

Aldermaston, Reading, West Berkshire RG7, UK Built at Aldermaston.

Other

Transferred

Mount Farm Cottage, Dorchester, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 7PG, UK Transferred to 14th PRS, 7th PRG, 8th AF USAAF.

Revisions

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ContributorAl_Skiff
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Spitfire Production List.

Date
ContributorAl_Skiff
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Spitfire Production List.

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
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Eyes of the Eighth - Patricia Fussell Keen

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