Yessir, couldn't do anyone but 264, though it will be PS-X. Talk about living up to a name - 13 kills, the last a Bf109 that attempted to finish her off as she glided to a wheels up landing, there was no other choice!
The base? For the BOB you mean? hmm, I know it was somewhere in Essex.... Romford??   |
no4mkit; Ironic that you mentioned Romford - my wife & her parents are from there (still live there).
There used to be a Sector Control Communication site there, controlling the
Defiants & Spitfires whilst airborne.
Having mentioned the nearest large town, means you must have a fair knowledge of the area ????????
Corgi, have depicted
THREE of their 1/32 Spitfires, that flew from & were based at
Hornchurch -
Stanford-Tuck's GR*P ......
Malan's ZP*A ..... &
Deere's KL*B.
Wouldn't it be nice if
Altaya/ IXO bought out another
Defiant in Daytime/Battle of Britain markings (from the same airfield) ???
B.T.W. I presume your
Altaya (264 Sqdn) conversion, is the a/c flown by 264's Top-scoring Duo.......Sgt Thorn & his gunner, Sgt Barker ?????
Not only is he (Barker - in various publications) listed as
THE top-scoring TURRET-GUNNER of W.W.II, .....but it may interest you to know that around the turn of this century (whilst I still lived in Hornchurch) he still lived there too, often speaking to friends of mine (from I.P.M.S. Hornchurch) - they say he is a very modest, quiet & un-assuming man, who does'nt like to dwell on the war, or his role in it, yet he helped give a mate of mine some tips when building his
1/48th 'Classic Airfames' Defiant.