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Originally Posted by TomcatViP
Regarding the armoured windshield I hd the same remark as KF looking at the picture... weird.
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The attached photo
http://spitfiresite.com/2007/10/earl...on-rauxaf.html is of a Spitfire I of 611 Sqn taken at Digby
http://www.611squadronrauxaf.co.uk/history/Brief.html during a press day in February 1940. (Alfred Price, Spitfire MkI/II Aces 1939-41, 1996 p. 11.) The armoured windscreen, fuel tank cover and bulged canopy is obvious, as is the straight aerial mast and early markings without finflash and serial number, the latter a feature of K and L series Spitfire Is built pre-war. (Ted Hooton, Spitfire Camouflage 1938-1940, Scale Aircraft Modeling Vol 5 No. 7 November 1982.)