Fascinating photos of crashed Battle Of Britain aircraft

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Mossie
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Fascinating photos of crashed Battle Of Britain aircraft

Fri Apr 07, 2017 6:04 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... itain.html

As a matter of interest regarding the photo of the crashed Hurricane near Buckingham Palace. The pilot, Sgt. Ray Holmes deliberately rammed the Junkers after running out of ammo.
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Re: Fascinating photos of crashed Battle Of Britain aircraft

Fri Apr 07, 2017 6:48 am

Mossie wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4385842/Photos-reveal-clean-operation-Blitz-struck-Britain.html

As a matter of interest regarding the photo of the crashed Hurricane near Buckingham Palace. The pilot, Sgt. Ray Holmes deliberately rammed the Junkers after running out of ammo.


Super photo essay.

That Daily Mail site sure has a lot of nice history articles scattered between the cheesecake pictures!
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Re: Fascinating photos of crashed Battle Of Britain aircraft

Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:07 am

Thanks for posting that. I did not know Italian aircraft participated in a raid(s) on Britain.
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Re: Fascinating photos of crashed Battle Of Britain aircraft

Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:23 am

The game with that collection is spotting the miss labelled photos.
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Re: Fascinating photos of crashed Battle Of Britain aircraft

Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:29 pm

What the heck is this?

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Re: Fascinating photos of crashed Battle Of Britain aircraft

Fri Apr 07, 2017 3:15 pm

Westland Lysander.
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Re: Fascinating photos of crashed Battle Of Britain aircraft

Fri Apr 07, 2017 4:13 pm

bdk wrote:What the heck is this?

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An enlisted man having a go at the officers loo? The sacrilege!! :shock:
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Re: Fascinating photos of crashed Battle Of Britain aircraft

Fri Apr 07, 2017 4:31 pm

Hunterfan wrote:Westland Lysander.
So it is! That view threw me off a bit.

Have the censors obliterated some markings from the tail?
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