
Rare Photo Reveals Interesting Tale of Service & Sacrifice
While putting together my book on the RAF in the Second World War, I uncovered many incredible photographs – too many to put between the covers of a single book. One of those rare photos, which I was able to use in the book, depicts Hurricane fighters at Duxford Airfield in England and was taken in 1941. The unique coding painted on the side of the aircraft in the immediate foreground provided the opportunity for research. The research revealed an interesting history of bot