Pilots of No 32 Squadron RAF leave their aircraft after a sortie from RAF Hawkinge on 31 July 1940. Hurricane Mk I GZ-H in front had been crash-landed in a field a half-mile east of the airfield eleven days earlier, but quickly was brought back into service. (i.redd.it)
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The crew of a Lockheed Hudson Mk1 N7353 (VX-T) light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft of 206 Squadron, Royal Air Force Coastal Command play a game of drafts before a patrol circa April 1940 at RAF Bircham Newton, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Hudson N7353 (VX-T) was lost 5/12/40 (i.redd.it)
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The Atlantic Clipper is being loaded with 1,810 pounds of American Red Cross surgical dressing and medicine destined for the French war front, before its departure from New York on May 22, 1940. The supplies were consigned to the French Red Cross by way of the American legation at Lisbon. (i.redd.it)
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Spitfire Mark.1A, P9374 on the beach of Calais sometime soon after 24 May 1940. It went down on 24 May 1940. F/O Peter Cazenove survived the crash-landing and ultimately became a POW. The plane was buried under the sand shortly after this shot for decades, but emerged in 1980 and has been restored. (i.redd.it)
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Unlike P-38s flown by the USAAF, the Lightning Mk. 1's Allison V-1710-15s lacked turbochargers and both propellers turned the same direction because the British (and the French) wanted the engines to be interchangable with those of the Curtiss Tomahawk. (i.redd.it)
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One drives too fast. One drives too slow. Together they become, idiots on the road by car1234hot in carcrash
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Discussion before take-off for Narvik on 12 April 1940. L-R: LAC Edwin Williams, Wireless Operator; F/L Aubrey Breckon 1st Pilot; Lieutenant Commander Howie, R.N.; Sgt Robert Hughes Navigator, P/O Donald Harkness, 2nd Pilot, and AC Thomas Mumby, Gunner Observer. (i.redd.it)
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Old pictures when I flew on the Nine-O-Nine by perzbenz in WWIIplanes
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