British aviation

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Seafire

 

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Italy

James "Ginger" Lacey (1917-1989) - one of the most successful British fighter pilots of the "Battle of Britain", shot down 18 German aircraft with his Hurricane.
During this same time, he was shot down twice himself.

 

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Hurricane

 

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Inside a Sunderland

 

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King George VI (light overcoat foreground) visits RAF squadron in France, late 1939

 

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Spitfire prangs on escort carrier HMS Ravager

 

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Miles Magister

Hawker Hind

Hind

 

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Tiger Moth

Gloster Gladiator

 

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Fairey Battle light bomber, France Jan 1940

Battle, Fra 40

A Battle attacks German column, Fra 40

Battle crews, Fra 40

 

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Mosquito

RAF training simulators

 

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Hurricane (Tiger Moth taking off)

Fairey Fulmar

 

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Spitfire

 

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Spitfire

 

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The Spit is a thing of beauty indeed.

 

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Lancaster and Spitfire of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, 2000

 

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Robert Stanford-Tuck in his Hurricane

 

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Spitfire

 

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Air Vice Marshal Leigh-Mallory (centre) in 1943. (killed in plane crash in French Alps Nov 1944 while en route to Ceylon)

Typhoon

 

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Lancaster

Lancaster