Thread: Greek Spad VII
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Old 30 June 2009, 01:03 PM   #3 (permalink)
Cruz Verras
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Sorry for keeping you waiting Angiolillo, found the pic and some info.
I can assure you that the greeks never distinguished the two types (VII-XIII)
whatsoever.So its a bit hard to tell fro the few pics.

To be frank, the one I'm posting is probably a XIII.
French patern and camo colours with a snake like fuselage stripe in black, regarded by some as a theatre marking and others as some sort of identification.Same markings have been observed on other types also.
Cockades in the usual places( not on fuselage,as the model in the museum).

4457 was flown by Lt.Mamalakis and 4466 by Sg. Stavropoulos in which he shot down a turkish Br.14 on 12 July 1922.
Stavropoulos also flew in 4468.According to greek sources all the above serials are refered as Spads.
Hope this helped a bit.

Cheers Cruz.
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