Spitfire over Berlin (2022)

[sksvlad]

A single Spitfire mission to fly over Berlin and obtain photographic evidence of German 88's presence to dissuade American 8th Army Airforce from flying into a German trap https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13434866/. I can't recommend this movie unless you REALLY REALLY love Spitfires and CGI. But I posted it here to ask a question. Is this true that photo recon planes of WWII era are unarmed?

 

[TimG]

The majority of PR Spitfires and Mosquitos were unarmed and in the former some were unarmoured. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super...ed_variants)#PR_Mk_IX_(type_374)_and_FR_Mk_IX

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito#Photo-reconnaissance

TimG