Wing Commander Ian "Widge" Gleed, leader of No. 244 Wing, in his Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB at an airfield in Tunisia, April 1943. Days later he was shot down and killed by Messerschmitt Bf 109s over Cape Bon. First World War 5 March 1944

5 March 1944

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image: a view of the deck of HMS Belfast with sailors and civilians gathering to watch a child swing in a bosun's chair

operating with 'Habforce'

Wing Commander Ian "Widge" Gleed, leader of No. 244 Wing, in his Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB at an airfield in Tunisia, April 1943. Days later he was shot down and killed by Messerschmitt Bf 109s over Cape Bon. First World War 5 March 1944Wing Commander I R "Widge" Gleed, leader of No. 244 Wing RAF, sitting in his Supermarine Spitfire Mark VB, AB502 'IR G', at an airfield in Tunisia. Below the cockpit is the same "Figaro the Cat" cartoon which Gleed had painted on his aircraft in the Unit