Wing Commander I. R. "Widge" Gleed, leader of No. 244 Wing RAF, sitting in his Supermarine Spitfire Mark VB, AB502 'IR-G', at an airfield in Tunisia, April 1943.Below the cockpit is the "Figaro the Cat" cartoon which Gleed had painted on his aircraft in the United Kingdom. After serving as Wing Commander of Operations at HQ Fighter Command, Gleed was posted to the Middle East in January 1943. He was attached briefly to No. 145 Squadron RAF for operational experience, then led 244 Wing through th