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- Spitfire MkV AB910, DZ K Sannerville, Normandy, France 5th june 2019. Spitfire Mk Vb AB910 flew 143 operational missions in a remarkable wartime 'career' that spanned almost 3 years on 'ops' (operations). Initially allocated to 222 (Natal) Squadron at North Weald in August 1941, the aircraft was damaged during a forced landing at Lympne within days of arriving. After repair, it was re-allocated to 130 Squadron, at Perranporth, Cornwall, flying convoy protection patrols and escorting daylight bombing raids. In June 1942, the aircraft was delivered to 133 (Eagle) Squadron at Biggin Hill. AB910 flew 29 'ops' with this unit, including four sorties on 19 August 1942 during the fierce aerial battle in support of Operation "Jubilee", the Dieppe Raid. D-Day is celebrating its anniversary today, 75 years after the 1944 landing in Normandy. The official name for the event was Operation Neptune and was the largest scale seaborne invasion in history. The effort from more than 200,000 heroic allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, unclasped Adolf Hitler’s hand from Europe. In celebration of their brave efforts today, the Imperial War Museum will release a fleet of aircraft which will take a route over England and towards the English Channel with a final descent on France. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8kkGIh_NXQ" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8kkGIh_NXQ</a> <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9219317/dakotas-heroes-d-day-fly-again-75th-anniversary-celebrations/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.thesun.co.uk/news/9219317/dakotas-heroes-d-day-fly-ag...</a> Approximately 280 paratroopers, made up of 130 UK troops from 16 Air Assault Brigade and 150 from the French Army’s 11e Brigade Parachutiste, will carry out a commemorative parachute descent onto fields on the outskirts of Sannerville, Normandy. In the early hours of 6th June 1944, the same fields served as Drop Zone ‘K’ for the 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion, tasked with the destruction of bridges to restrict German freedom of manoeuvre. Following the military parachuting The Red Devils, the Army and Parachute Regiment freefall display team, will do a display, including a tandem jump with D-Day veterans Harry Read and Jock Hutton. On D-Day, Mr Read, now 95, was a 20-year-old wireless operator and Mr Hutton, now 94, was a 19-year-old in 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion. <a href="https://www.daksovernormandy.com/aircraft/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.daksovernormandy.com/aircraft/</a> |
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Source | Spitfire coming from nowhere |
Author | Falcon® Photography from France, France |
Camera location | 49° 11′ 11.9″ N, 0° 14′ 14.82″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 49.186640; -0.237450 |
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Camera manufacturer | SONY |
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Camera model | ILCE-7M3 |
Author | Falcon_33 |
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Exposure time | 1/640 sec (0.0015625) |
F-number | f/5.6 |
ISO speed rating | 64 |
Date and time of data generation | 14:57, 5 June 2019 |
Lens focal length | 200 mm |
Horizontal resolution | 240 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 240 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 8.0 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 12:26, 22 June 2019 |
Exposure Program | Normal program |
Exif version | 2.31 |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:57, 5 June 2019 |
APEX shutter speed | 9.321928 |
APEX aperture | 4.970854 |
APEX brightness | 10.93125 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4 APEX (f/4) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Color space | sRGB |
Focal plane X resolution | 1,677.41796875 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 1,677.41796875 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 200 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Lens used | FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:26, 22 June 2019 |
Unique ID of original document | 638F3227FF824BEAEA229B2A28085667 |
IIM version | 4 |