Image from the Evan Dall Mackie personal collection.
Squadron Leader ED Mackie (5th left, front row) posing with his pilots of No. 92 Squadron. On and around a Spitfire. Believed to be at RAF Station Canne, Italy.
Second from left, leaning on wing, is Canadian flight commander JF Edwards.
Published in Mackie's biography 'Spitfire Leader' by Max Avery and Christopher Shores.
Image from the Evan Dall Mackie personal collection.
Squadron Leader ED Mackie standing beside the rudder of his No. 92 Squadron Spitfire. Unknown location.
Published in Mackie's biography 'Spitfire Leader' by Max Avery and Christopher Shores.
Image from the Evan Dall Mackie personal collection.
Informal group of No. 485 Squadron 'B' flight pilots at RAF Station Kenley.
L-R: JD Rae, AG Shaw, unknown, unknown, WV Crawford-Compton, ED Mackie.
In front; DGE Brown, Dt Clouston.
Published in Mackie's biography 'Spitfire Leader' by Max Avery and Christopher Shores.
Image from the Evan Dall Mackie personal collection.
Informal group of No. 485 Squadron pilots in front of a Spitfire at RAF Station Kenley.
L-R: On aircraft; DT Clouston, JR Liken, TC Goodlet, AR Robson, PH Gaskin [2x on engine], JJ Palmer.
Standing; EJ Shaw, ED Mackie, McNeil, WV Crawford-Compton, MRD Hume, JG Pattison, JD Rae, JRC Kilian, (Adjutant), EP Wells, BE Gibbs, D Russell, MM Shand.
In front; DGE Brown, JM Checketts, SF Browne, HR Leckie.
Informal group of No. 80 Squadron pilots in front of a Spitfire, at RAF Station West Maling, England.
The Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader RL Spurdle, at top without hat.
This is just before the squadron converted to fly Tempests.
Pilot Officer LSMcQ White (right) being congratulated by Flying Officer HS Tucker (left) on the return of Pilot Officer White to No. 485 Squadron after being shot down and evading capture. Unknown location in England.
Wreckage of a No. 485 Squadron Spitfire that was destroyed on the ground during the New Years Day attack by the Luftwaffe at RAF Station Maldeghem, Belgium.
Image from the Robert Kenneth Brown personal collection.
Four No. 681 Squadron pilots(?) posing for the camera with one of their Spitfires at RAF Station Imphal, India.
Handwritten on the reverse "681 Sqdn. | Imphal Detachment | Oct 1944", with two signatures and a drawing of a winged aerial camera.
Image from the Robert Kenneth Brown personal collection.
Nose art a uniformed duck with "Vewwy funny", on a No. 681 Squadron Spitfire. RAF Station Imphal India.
Image from the Robert Kenneth Brown personal collection.
Ground crew preparing a No. 681 Squadron Spitfire for flight. RAF Station Imphal India.
Nose art shows a uniformed duck with "Vewwy funny".
Handwritten on the reverse "Imphal."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Air to air view of a Spitfire in flight over the Mediterranean Sea.
Bryan Young's information supplied "I took this photo of Al Swann, [from] New Plymouth sometime during April 1943 while over the Mediterranean on a ferry flight from Maison Blanche to Setif. A glorious day of blue sky above and blue sea as calm as a mill-pond below. The port aileron and wing tip of my aircraft can be seen in the bottom right corner of the photo."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Bryan Young sitting in the cockpit with his Fitter, Englishman Jackie Laird, sitting on the wing of No. 81 Squadron Spitfire JL188 FL-S. Gioia, Italy.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Same as for No. 7 [1999-058.18]. Each aircraft had its own fitter and rigger appointed whose sole responsibility was to look after that particular machine. We had an Englishman and a Scot respectively, Jackie Laird and Jock Clements and we operated on very familiar terms with both. This shot shows Jackie Laird's happy face just above the wing. The rough patch on the leading edge in the foreground is a protection for the guns to prevent dust and debris from entering the gun-ports and was easily replaced after firing had shot then away."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Bryan Young's information supplied "August 1943. Self, Bryan Young showing his nervousness on instant readiness at the end of the runway of Te Kali [sic] on Malta while serving a short while with 154 Squadron. A tiresome and nerve wracking duty hated by most pilots."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Bryan Young standing in front of hi No. 81 Squadron Spitfire at RAF Station Kangla, India.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Location - Kangla airstrip on the Imphal plain in the Indian State of Mauripur, north east Assam on the Burmese border during the siege of Imphal 1944. Occasion - 81 Squadron was then attached to 170 Wing of 221 Group flying the Spitfire Mk VIII depicted here, a refined and superior version of the Mk IX. The aircraft is my own, squadron code FL-S serial number JF698, it is parked in an earth revetment under a bamboo framework and camouflage netting with metal tracking covering the ground, the spinner as with all 81 Squadron aircraft is painted a brilliant scarlet, Jock Clements my fitter is at the starboard wing tip with myself in front complete with NZ Army lemon-squeezer hat given to Kiwi squadron members when passing through Cairo when we flew our machines out to India on transfer from Italy and the walking stick to help with a sprained ankle inflicted when I slipped, complete with parachute off a muddied wing. It was during the monsoon season when everything was flooded and covered with mud."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Line up of Spitfires and a Beaufighter on an airfield. Unknown location, believed to be in North Africa.
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Three No. 81 Squadron New Zealand pilots with their Fiat car in front of Spitfire JL188 FL-S at Gioia, Italy.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Location, date and aircraft same as for photo [1999-058.18]. The full squadron code on the aircraft can be clearly seen. From left to right Al Swann. Jim Robinson and self, all Kiwis. The motorcar, a Fiat, was one we purloined from the Italians as spoils of war. We shared its use."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
No. 81 Squadron New Zealand pilots Al Swann (left) and Bryan young (right) on Spitfire JL188 FL-S at Gioia, Italy.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Location Gioia, Italy October 1943. Occasion and aircraft same as for photos [1999-058.18, 1999-058.19 and 1999-058.46]. The car in foreground is the purloined and battered Fiat. Al Swann on wing with self on edge of cockpit. Our fitter and rigger Jackie Laird and Jock Clements can be seen at work under the engine."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Spitfire EN444 with some others, at Setif, Algeria.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Spitfire Mk IX serial number EM444 [sic] with 90 gallon overload tank slung between the wheels at Setif, Algeria while I was taking it to a squadron in Tunisia during April 1943."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Bryan Young sitting on the propeller of Spitfire EN444, which he was ferrying to an operational squadron. Setif, Algeria.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Same occasion as in photo [1999-058.44] and same aircraft showing the extremely sleek lines of the Spitfire. Also portrayed is a line-shooting pose of myself."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Rear fuselage of No. 81 Squadron Spitfire JL188 FL-S with a Lysander behind. Gioia, Italy.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Location - Gioia, Italy October 1943. Refer captions [1999-058.18, 1999-058.19, 1999-058.46 and 1999-058.45]. Foreground is tail end of my Spitfire FL-S while in the background can be seen a Lysander used by one of the 'cloak and dagger' squadrons for dropping agents and supplies behind enemy lines."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Top view of No. 81 Squadron Spitfire JF358 inside a hangar at Cairo West, Egypt.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Date - December 1943. Location - Cairo West desert airfield. Subject - Hangared Spitfire Mk VIII of 81 Squadron serial number JF358 before I flew it out to India. Bird's eye view taken from the hangar rafters! The previous month the squadron had left their Mk Vs and Mk IXs in Italy bringing all else by sea from Taranto to Alexandria where the pilots disembarked and left the ground crews and ground staff with the squadron stores onboard to sail by sea to Calcutta. We, the pilots, took possession of factory fresh Mk VIIIs which, in stages, we flew out from Egypt to Burma."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
3/4 view of No. 81 Squadron Spitfire JF358 inside a hangar at Cairo West, Egypt.
See 1999-058.40 for Bryan Young's information supplied.
