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Atrocious weather in the winter of 1944 turned airfields in Belgium and the Netherlands into quagmires. This No 127 Squadron Spitfire XVIE (RR255/9N-Y) has its daily inspection in a sea of mud at Grimbergen (B-60), 9 December. Even the starter trolley in the foreground is receiving attention in this heavily posed scene. The 'E' wing fitted to Spitfire XVIs and later Mk IXs finally did away with the four rifle-calibre machine-guns, replacing them with a pair of .50in Brownings. On 29 December this aircraft was shot down by flak and its pilot mortally wounded.}}

Atrocious weather in the winter of 1944 turned airfields in Belgium and the Netherlands into quagmires. This No 127 Squadron Spitfire XVIE (RR255/9N-Y) has its daily inspection in a sea of mud at Grimbergen (B-60), 9 December. Even the starter trolley in the foreground is receiving attention in this heavily posed scene. The 'E' wing fitted to Spitfire XVIs and later Mk IXs finally did away with the four rifle-calibre machine-guns, replacing them with a pair of .50in Brownings. On 29 December this aircraft was shot down by flak and its pilot mortally wounded.}}

| author = Goodchild A (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer

| author = Goodchild A (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer
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| date = {{between|1939|1945}}
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| date = 1944-12-09

| catalogue_number = CL 1699

| catalogue_number = CL 1699

| database_number = 205219452

| database_number = 205219452
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