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Hurricane or Spitfire? Which was Britain’s Best WWII Fighter?
As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning ...
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Hawker Hurricane
As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940: “Never in the field of human conflict ...
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Queen of the Hurricanes
In the early years of Second World War, fighter planes were in short supply ... railway boxcars but now the Allies) needed Hawker Hurricane airplanes and quickly. The daunting task fell to ...
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This was their finest hour
Photo: Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, the renowned fighter ace, and fellow pilots study a caricature of Hitler painted on a Hawker Hurricane in October 1940. (IWM CH 1412) Mo Mowlam analyses the ...
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Hurricane or Spitfire? Which was Britain’s Best WWII Fighter?
All of 303 Squadron’s kills obtained during the Battle of Britain were attained in … yep, you guessed it: the Hawker Hurricane. What’s more, the only RAF Fighter Command flyboy to be awarded ...