B-24 Liberator, and
the photo of the Hurricane itself is Hurricane IIc Serial Number KX857.
Air Britains RAF Aircraft KA100-KZ999 gives KX857 as one of a batch of 1455 Hurricane IIB, IIC, IID, and IVs delivered from Hawkers Kingston and Langley factorys between 11/1942 and 5/1943, noting that it went to the Middle East and that there was No Further Trace.
That "no further trace' no doubt being it's movement to 345th where I believe it is the one converted to two seat. In the photo you have it's still a single seater before the ground crews converted it. The battered condition matches the photo of the two seat cockpit shot.
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, Bombers, Hurricane, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 806
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Dutch Miller and unknown in Hurricane IIc Serial Number KX857.
Air Britains RAF Aircraft KA100-KZ999 gives KX857 as one of a batch of 1455 Hurricane IIB, IIC, IID, and IVs delivered from Hawkers Kingston and Langley factorys between 11/1942 and 5/1943, noting that it went to the Middle East and that there was No Further Trace.
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2 to 5, 345thFS, 350thFG, Hurricane IIc, Pilot, WWII
350thPhotoProject 254
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RAF Hurricane KX857
This Hurricane was in the 345th's Squadron Photo album. I scanned the same photo in 347th Ken Smith's photo album.
From Hugh:
The last Hurricane is a photograph taken by Charles Banks, 347 Sq. photographer at Ghisonaccia, Corsica, in December 44, shortly after the ground crews arrived there from No. Africa. It was an aircraft assigned to an RAF Squadron that was one of the first allied combat units to arrive on Corsica after the Krauts pulled out in September or early October 43.
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350thFG, Aircraft, Hurricane, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 1508
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BE695 Is this a Hurricane?
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, Hurricane, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 1507
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KW95?? or KW96??
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, Hurricane, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 2414
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The Hurricane I think is the two seater the 350 FG made. I believe each squadron may have had one. Not certain which squadron this one belonged to.
Keith
From Hugh:
The last Hurricane is a photograph taken by Charles Banks, 347 Sq. photographer at Ghisonaccia, Corsica, in December 44, shortly after the ground crews arrived there from No. Africa. It was an aircraft assigned to an RAF Squadron that was one of the first allied combat units to arrive on Corsica after the Krauts pulled out in September or early October 43.
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347thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, Hurricane, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 2346th_P39N_lineup
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There is in this P-39 line up a Hurricane in the middle. THis is the 346th lineup.
From Hugh:
The third Hurricane is in the 346th Squadron line up at Reghaia, outside Algiers, in Algeria, taken in the late summer or 43 by Captain Charles Fowles, 346 Sq Ops Officer. As such, It is the same aircraft at an earlier date that appears in the second photo above, the latter being the a/c after it had been repainted Army OD.
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Hurricane
350thPhotoProject 1346th sharkmouth Hurricane
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Shark Mouth Hurricane. Now this is a strange one. I will have to wait for a better scan to determine the tail number. Possibly 4265.
From Hugh:The second Hurricane is almost certainly the one I flew down to Setif, without a canopy, in January 44, to trade for the new replacement, the first Hurry. It was a bloody cold trip and by the time I reached the RAF field at Bone, on the coast, a big piece of the fabric had torn away from the fuselage from the open cockpit rail and was flapping in the wind against the fuselage. I decided to put it on the ground and try to find someone to repair it. A willing Irk, RAF nick name for their aircraft maintenance types, after recovering from the scene, got some dope and stuck the fabric back on the fuselage.
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350thPhotoProject 4Hawker_Hurricane
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Joey Chessor Collection from the service squadron.
From Hugh: Of course, it has to be the time a 27th Ftr Gp pilot at Tarquinia flew through our flight line and took off the windshield? or top of a 346 Sq jeep parked in front of the Ops tent, and part of the parachute tent, etc. I some how have a picture in my mind of seeing the bird shortly after it passed our area, flying at a very low altitude and very slow, then crash landing a couple of hundred yards further on along the slope of the terrain,n at about the same distance form the runway as we were at Sq. ops, and seeing the pilot step our of the bird on the right side, either with his parachute, or seeing him take a few steps and then return to retrieve his chute.. I have that recall of seeing the bird only after it had passed through us. But whether this is actual or only illusion, I cannot say for certain, today. Tell Joey thanks from me. Did he say where he got the picture? By the way, I have that incident occurring on 13 October 44 at Tarquinia, and if I did observe what I just related, and I think that I did, then it had to have observed the incident from the 347 Sq ops area as I had transferred to that Squadron three weeks earlier. Our flight lines were down one side of the runway with the 27th Group on the other side, as I recall. Too bad we can’t see the serial number but maybe it was on the tail of the Hurricane. However, it should have been the same bird I picked up at the RAF Depot at Setif Algeria in January 44. George Grove’s book has a picture of the bird at that time, at Elmas Sardinia. Cheers, Hugh
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350thPhotoProject 5Hurricane 2-seater
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Hurricane LB640 to be sure.
From Hugh:Fellows, the first hurricane is the one I picked up at the RAF Depot at Setif Algeria in Jan 44.
