MED1769 Accession Number: MED1769

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Italy. c. November 1943. Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) L. C. R. Morris of Brisbane, Qld, who was on patrol along the 'bomb-line' with another Spitfire aircraft, putting on his fur-lined boots outside his tent. They encountered a German formation of seven Messerschmitt Bf109 aircraft and eight Focke-Wulf FW 190 aircraft. A dogfight ensued and Flt Sgt Morris closed up to within twenty yards of a FW 190. He saw his fire going into the cockpit of the German aircraft and it went straight down in a dive and crashed. He then attacked another enemy aircraft and achieved a 'probable'.

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Accession Number
MED1769
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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