Sptifire chilled and delivered?

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This was forwarded to me and I thought perhaps those of you across the pond could confirm or deny the story.

13 June 1944: An English brewery donates a sizable amount of fresh beer for the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method is created, strapping kegs to the under the wings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields. Flying at 12 000 feet chills the brew to perfection.
If true it was quite ingenius and probably made for some happy (if only for a moment) lads in France.

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[JerryEAL]

Less bombs and more beer,HMMMMM.Just when I thought a Spitfire could not get more beautiful.

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Guinness?

[CINDERS]

My father worked on them as an LAC engine fitter in the RAAF and often said the "Spit" was a beautiful aircraft and there was no sound like the Merlin in full song if I had a spare 30 million I buy a Spitfire Mk IX & Mk XIV then probably a P-51 ahhh dam it may as well throw in a Jug and a P-38 and for the last hoorahs a Tiffie and a Tempest should see me having to work for the next um 300 years to pay off the credit card.

[Youngblood]

Seems that Robert Scott mentioned something like that in his book (mostly) about the AVG, God Is My Co-Pilot.

When he was flying supplies over The Hump (staging out of UK base in India or Burma), they would periodically have a "need" to do a high altitude checkflight in one of the C47s ... with the cases of beer that had just been received/acquired in the back. When they landed the beer was icy cold.

I walked away from reading that wonderful book (when I was, like, 16) with the impression that those special checkflights were just one of many useful things that the Brits at that base taught Bob Scott.

[Gil Boyd]

But Youngblood, they didn't do it in sealed kegs, which one could believe looking briefly at those images.

They are high explosive charges, fitted under the Spit, however, dropping ANYTHING with that much volatility inside them like Real beer in those days, as it was REAL ALE would have been the same as the high explosive itself when it hit the deck, It would have gone off with a bang, but heyho, what a way to go ha ha!!

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Sorry I just caught the Sptifire typo. Not much of a typist.