I seem to remember one account of the Spitfire meeting its old enemy the Bf 109 after WWII but the roles were reversed.

A bit of a wild guess from memory, but did the Germans capture one and fit a DB engine?

Cheers Paul

I only recently found this out. I've mentioned it it another thread (topic), but I thought I'd mention it in here too, as it's quite pertinent.  

The Spitfire MkI (at least some of them) had 'manually pumped' landing gear.  
I never knew this. How many of these were there??  

'I climbed into the cockpit and Ken Scales helped me to fasten my parachute, then closed the little access door at shoulder height. The cockpit was narrow but not cramped. The instrument panel was tidy, symmetric and logically laid out. At once I felt good in that cockpit. I primed the Merlin engine carefully and it started first time and from the stub exhausts, one for each of the 12 cylinders, came a good powerful crackle whenever a small burst of power was applied for taxiing. I did my cockpit checks. With a last look round for other aircraft I turned into wind and opened the throttle. The aircraft tended to roll on its narrow undercarriage, but soon we were airborne and climbing away.

At once I had to reset the rudder trimmer and then to deal with the undercarriage retraction and the canopy. The undercarriage had to be raised with a hydraulic hand pump, so it was necessary to transfer the left hand from the throttle to the stick and operate the pump with the right, difficult to do without inducing an oscillation of the whole aircraft.

However, once fully airborne the aircraft began to slip along as if on skates with the speed mounting up steadily and an immediate impression of effortless performance, somewhat reminiscent of my old Bentley cruising in top gear. The view straight ahead was almost non-existent as one got close to the ground, so I approached the airfield in a gentle left hand turn, canopy open, and head tilted to look round the left-hand side of the windscreen. As I chopped the throttle on passing over the boundary hedge, the aeroplane showed no desire to touch down - it evidently enjoyed flying - but finally it gently settled on three points. Here, I thought to myself, is a real lady.'

From 'Spitfire' by Jeffrey Quill

If you want to see a drawing of that German Spitfire, go here...

http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/spitdb605.html