Vickers-Supermarine's Spitfire Mk.lX provided widespread service throughout the European and Mediterranean theatres with the RAF and USAAF, as well as with the multitude of Commonwealth and Free European units under RAF control. It also remained in use with the peacetime RAF during the post war years, at home and abroad. The Mk.lX also went on to equip many other air arms after the war, including those of Czechoslovakia, South Africa, Italy, Holland, Belgium, France, Israel, Egypt and Burma, among others. Egyptian & Israeli Spitfire Mk.lXs even engaged in combat with each other during the first Arab-Israeli War, however those featured here pre-date this occurrence by a few years, depicting RAF aircraft from 32 and 208 Squadrons, which were stationed in Palestine on peacekeeping duties between 1945-47. One of them went on to become the first Spitfire in Israeli service after being rescued from an RAF aircraft dump and repaired.
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