Shot Down Spitfire - JK707

Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vc ‘Tropical’ (MX-P, serial number JK707) of the 307th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force USAAF, shot down by return fire from a Dornier Do 217. Pilot Major Virgil C Fields crash landed on beach off Salerno on September 9th, 1943. ©IWM