Mr Penny may be all that but he did not participate in the Battle of Britain in any flying capacity. I have the entire list of those who flew during the accepted BoB dates including age, nationality, aircrew status, number of confirmed kills and probables and postings through what is some times a very short career.

Unfortunately for this story there is no Penny, Flt lieutenant or otherwise, listed as a BoB pilot or aircrew.
If you you had seen the aft deck of a WW2 US destroyer you would realise that fitting one 35 foot crate would have been bloody hard work let alone trying to fit more than one.

The time lines don’t see to match up on this story……..Slims army just made it to Rangoon at the end May they beat the monsoon by a few hours, it would have taken two to three weeks to secure and clear Mingladon airfields (there were three in a triangular pattern) for use as there were booby traps and they had been hammered by USAAF B17’s and RAF Liberators. The Japs capitulated on the 2 October. So someone ordered a large number of Spitfires from Castle Bromwich and shipped them to Rangoon without any paperwork or manifests of any kind just as the existing Beaufighters and Spitfire Squadron that had been flown in from India were ordered to cease air patrols and concentrate on ground attack as total air superiority had been achieved.

RAF Mingladon stayed in British hands until the 1950’s and was Burma’s main airport, so you have to ask yourself why, with all the facilities, hangers all weather runways etc etc they took perfectly good Spitfires off the cargo boat and promptly buried them when the RAF had every intention of staying on as long as possible.

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Just add a little more to the story about Spitfires being dumped overboard after the second world war. I used to work with a chap called George Russell (sadly died of a heart attack in 1978) and he was with the Royal Navy posted to Australia / Singapore at the end of the war. He told me he was part of the crew responsible for pushing airframes and engines – all crated up and never used – off the back of the aircraft carrier. Apparently, they used to steal all the Rolls Royce engine tools kits out of the crates and sell them for their beer money!