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This, the second part of 'American Spitfire - Camouflage and Markings' briefly covers the Eagle Squadrons with their standard RAF camouflage and markings. It leads on to the 4th Fighter Group and then the 52nd Fighter Group which, like the 31st FG covered in Part I, operated Spitfires in a variety of colour schemes over a two year period. While the Group initially retained RAF camouflage with added American National insignia; by rhe time they were in Italy a variety of low and high altitude schemes were in evidence. Add to this the Group's squadron badges and distinct style of marking a pilots name on an aircraft and you have some of the most varied Spitfire colour schemes of the Second World War. The 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, with its PRU Blue Spitfire PR Mk XIs and the 67th RG are then covered, with many previously unpublished photographs.
Once again the author dug into the original records to find the history of some of the rarest armored vehicles created by the Germans. While the mainstay for the battles in North Africa were the Pz.Kpfw. III and IV, Rommel's army troop tested numerous unusual weapons in combat. Nowhere else can the enthusiast or modeler find the history of the Panzer-Selbstfahrlafette II (also known as HKP 902), a unique design for armored semi-tracked tank destroyers with a powerful 7.5cm L/41 guns, 15cm S.I.G.33 B Sfl., the special armored self-propelled gun using Pz.Kpfw. II components and powered by a Büssing-NAG V-8 engine, the rare 15cm S.I.G.33 B mounted on a Pz.Kpfw. III by the troops in the field, 15cm s.F.H.13 mounted on the French Lorraine tractor chassis, initially created for a special action by Rommel, 7.62cm Russian anti-tank gun mounted on the semi-tracked Zugkraftwagen 5t, and the Landwasserschlepper issued to support Rommel's Special Forces in a planned attack behind enemy lines. 55 new and rare high quality photos illustrate these most unusual armored vehicles in Rommel's Funnies.