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and Beaufighters of 9 OTU from September 1942. The ‘residents’ changed again in August 1944 with the arrival of Douglas Dakotas ...

102 FLYPAST September 2018 AIRFIELDS CUMBRIA TO SCOTLAND October 1943. Boeing Fortresses and Handley Page Halifaxes comprised th ...

Surrounding the museum is the bustling Heathhall Industrial Estate, most of which utilises the many ‘half-round’ Type J and K st ...

WHITE STAR Spitfires WHITE STAR A s their training progressed, the fledgling pilots of the 31st Fighter Group realised they woul ...

WHITE STAR Spitfires AMERICAN FIGHTER PILOTS WENT TO WAR IN EUROPE IN SPITFIRES. WARREN E THOMPSON DESCRIBES THE EXPERIENCES OF ...

WORLD WAR TWOWORLD WAR TWO SUPERMARINE SPITFIRESUPERMARINE SPITFIRE followed a fortnight later by the pilots. By June 26 flying ...

exit the aircraft. I was rescued by an Allied torpedo boat which had picked up another Spitfire pilot who had been shot down.” L ...

WORLD WAR TWOWORLD WAR TWO SUPERMARINE SPITFIRESUPERMARINE SPITFIRE in flights of two. As soon as we broke... a quick snap turn, ...

“On the second and third mission, I flew with a different wingman and about all we found was a true French warrior on a motorcyc ...

WORLD WAR TWOWORLD WAR TWO SUPERMARINE SPITFIRESUPERMARINE SPITFIRE and cellophane over muzzles and on machine guns. We then use ...

moved over to Montecorvino, to the east of Salerno by which time the Luftwaffe had regrouped. The 31st retained its interceptor ...

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116 FLYPAST September 2018 NEVER FAILINGFAILING OUR OCCASIONAL LOOK AT THE HERITAGE OF NOW DISBANDED UNITS FEATURES 98 SQUADRON, ...

September 2018 FLYPAST 117 98 SQUADRON 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE when a raid by ‘A’ Flight was engaged by 15 enemy aircra ...

118 FLYPAST September 2018 evacuated via St Nazaire on the SS Lancastria, but she was bombed just outside the harbour with heavy ...

98 SQUADRON 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE September 2018 FLYPAST 119 problems with the aircraft proved frustrating and it was ...

120 FLYPAST September 2018 Paynter’s Mitchell II FV985/VO-S they exploded, and the wreckage hit Flt Lt Bill Weeks’ machine. Both ...