WW2 Spitfire Pilot Tribute Page: Jack Spencer

If you perhaps have a family member who served as a SAAF fighter pilot during ww2 and you would want to find out more about his war service please contact me, hopefully I can be of some help.
Tinus le Roux
January 2013

Military Career
05/05/1941 I.T.W. (Initial Training Wing) Lyttleton, 75 A/S
30/09/1941 A.T.W. (Advanced Training Wing) Lyttleton, 75 A/S
22/11/1941 E.F.T.S. Potchefstroom, 6 A/S, course 5, (Tiger Moths)
06/12/1941 1st solo , 10 hours flying
16/03/1942 S.F.T.S Vereeniging, 22 A/S, course 15, (Hawker Hinds, Harts, Audaxes)
03/06/1942 Commissioned as an officer
03/06/1942 Obtain wings
27/07/1942 26 A/S Pietersburg, med bomber course, Oxfords
21/09/1942 Central Flying School (CFS) Bloemfontein, Instr. course
19/12/1942 Bloemspruit, conversion to Miles Master
13/03/1943 73 OTU, Abu Suier, Egypt, Harvards and Spitfires
06/09/1943 SAAF No. 1 Fighter Squadron, Italy
25/12/1943 Bailed over the sea due to engine failure, rescued.
27/06/1944 Shot down by ack-ack, Bailed, captured by Germans. 170 ops hours flown.
28/06/1944 POW in Germany
27/06/1945 Arrive back in Durban
Video Interview

Thanks to Brent Best for the art work!

Jack getting his Spitfire! Thanks to his granddaughter Jacquelyn who sent this photograph to me. 12 August 2013.

Barney ? and Jack at 1 squadron in Italy

Jack and Hinton Brown, remembrance day 2009. They were squadron mates during the war and remained close friends all these years. Hinton passed away in 2012.
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