<i>Royal Air Force in the Middle East, 1944-1945.</i><br>
Supermarine Spitfire Mark VIII, JF294, being flown from Cairo to Cape Town by Flying Officer G E "Tiger" Camplin of RAF Transport Command Mediterranean Group, for presentation to the South African Government.  From March to September 1944, Fg Off Camplin gave a number of flying demonstrations in the Union and the aircraft was exhibited during the 'Liberty Cavalcades' in a number of towns.  JF294 was transferred to the SAAF in October 1944 and was passed to the South African National Museum of Military History at Saxonwold in 1948, where it is presently displayed as '5501'.
Brown (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer
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