Originally Posted by
El Grifo
I could find out which Spitfire Squadrons were based at Biggin Hill during wartime, after which I could check to see if any of their aircraft were lost over Scotland.
As my friend points out, there could not have been many !
Au contraire:
A quick Google threw up 92, 72, 74 and 610 while these were based there is did not follow that your Spitfire was based there but might simply have planned to land there. 'He overshot' might also mean that Biggin was a turning point en route to another airfield perhaps with less sophisticated nav aids.
AA says could we not D/F in those days. I am not sure the R/T sets they had then had crystals to cover the whole of UK. It might be the case that once a short range fighter was out of his group area then he was unable to communicate.
We used to have an RAF Common - 117.9 and Flying Training had 115.56. Bomber had 135.95 IIRC but these were all post war freqs. If he had limited freqs available, may be 4, then he may have been out of contact.