Spitfire Mk Vb/Trop	
Royal Air Force
Number 93 Squadron
Hal Far, Malta, 1943
Flight Sergeant Raymond Baxter

Raymond Baxter would become a journalist, broadcaster, and TV celebrity, as well as former fighter pilot.  The following is his poem in tribute to the Sicilian Campaign.  He authored this in 1943:

Blue are the skies of Sicily
And green is the olive grove.
Brown are the hills of Sicily
Where the winding rivers rove.

But I'd rather the grey and windswept sky
Of the English Lakes when a storm is nigh.
I'd rather the green of Kentish trees
As orchards sigh to a summer breeze.
I'd rather the brown on shoulders of Shap
Where curlews call and foxes yap.

The stench of death in Sicily
And deaths in those heavenly skies;
There's burning heat in Sicily
And myriad flies on wounds and eyes.

But cool is the dew on an English lawn
When roses sleep and dreams are born,
Whilst a harvest moon with her silver light
Casts the spell of peace on an English night.
And softly on the fragrant air
The wings of love are hovering there.


      From his introduction to Spitfires Over Sicily by Brian Cull.



This skin is Flying Sheep's awesome work with just a few changes so I could create Baxter's plane.

-RedEyes
