Please help me, about a year ago I built the Tamiya 1/48 spitfire vb and couldn’t think how to display it, but now I have placed in a diorama which I’ve titles “JUST…”, anyhow now I’ve gone and lost the instructions for and I’m trying to trace which squadron it is from the only markings that it has are AGM by the roundel no numbers at all.
Please help me.
Scott.
In the instructions I’ve seen, there is no squadron given for that aircraft. Apparently it was cocded AGM because the pilot’s name was A.G.Malan…
Malan flew with and then commanded 74 Squadron until March, 1941, when he was promoted to Wing Commander of the wing including 74 Squadron. The RAF let wing commanders use their initials as their aircraft code if they wanted to, and I believe most did.
Scotty,
As said above, it’s ‘Sailor’ Malan’s aircraft. (the A and G stand for ‘Adolf Gysbert’).As Wayne says, Wing Leaders were allowed to use their initials on their aircraft in lieu of squadron codes. Malan commanded the Biggin Hill wing from March 1941 until August that year, when he was posted for a ‘rest’ to 58 Operational Training Unit. According to Shores and Williams in ‘Aces High’ (one day, I’ll answer a query here without referring to that book…), he destroyed 12 aircraft and shared another two while commanding the Biggin wing. I’m not sure if he used ‘AGM’ for all of these victories, though.