Image from the Evan Dall Mackie personal collection. Still from Evan Mackie's, No. 80 Squadron Tempest, gun camera showing an Arado 96 being shot down, somewhere over the Fassberg airfield. Published in Mackie's biography 'Spitfire Leader' by Max Avery and Christopher Shores.

Still from Evan Mackie's, No. 80 Squadron Tempest, gun camera showing an Arado 96 being shot down, somewhere over the Fassberg airfield.

Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. Abandoned German aircraft on the tarmac in front of a hangar. Fassberg, Germany. Handwritten on the reverse "Thanks Goering but surely you need these kites. Gerries hurried exit left these careless [unreadable]. Fassberg. Germany. April 1945."

Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. Abandoned German aircraft outside a hangar at Fassberg, Germany. Handwritten on the reverse "As Gerries left it. Fassberg, Celle, Germany. April 45."

Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson, sitting in his Tempest SA-V at Fassberg, Germany. Handwritten on the reverse "Lets press the tits & see what happens. Just before an 'op'. Flak hole on undercarriage fairing just been repaired. Fassberg. April 45."

Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. Handwritten on the reverse "Entrance to our billet lately occupied by Luftwaffe officers, who left in rather a hurry. Wonder if the rent was paid up? Fassberg. April 1945."