CRASH OF A SPITFIRE
AT TRUSCOTT, WA
ON 20 MAY 1945

RAF Spitfire A58-399 (JG432) of 548 Squadron RAF crash landed at Truscott in Western Australia on 20 May 1945. The pilot had been conducting local flying training from Truscott and made an inadvertent wheels-up landing. The pilot, Warrant Officer Vassie (RAF), suffered first degree burns when the aircraft burst into flames on the Marsden Matting installed at Truscott.

REFERENCE BOOKS

"Tocumwal to Tarakan"
"Australians and the Consolidated B-24 Liberator"
By Michael V. Nelmes

"Australia @ War" WWII Research Products

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