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Pilot of No. 442 Squadron RCAF Flight Lieutenant Arnold Roseland who flew the Y2-K Spitfire on 65 combat sorties from March 1944. Roseland was commanding the 'B' flight of the squadron. He gained fame by engaging and downing two Focke-Wulf Fw 190s in a single sortie over the Normandy beachheads, but was himself killed in a dogfight in the same area on July 13, 1944

Rosenland's Spitfire, Mk. IX ser.no. TE294, which is possibly serving as a background to this photo, has survived the war and is currently being restored in Canada. [Pat Murphy coll.]

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