Mk I Hurricanes of 249 Squadron are seen returning to North Weald after heavy action over London during the culmination of the Battle of Britain in September of that year
the most famous of all air battles had begun
as the unmistakable thunder of 12 cylinder Merlin engines at full throttle shatters the night
topped with steel the Sutherland Highlanders awaited the onslaught of the enemys horsemen in line
supplying the resistance and dropping / recovering agents
Tugging the Tiger's Tail by Ivan Berryman. SIG2012 Mk I Hurricanes of 249DHM6803. Tugging the Tiger's Tail by Ivan Berryman. It is the Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805 and the British 2nd rater Temeraire with 98 guns, having followed HMS Victory through the Franco Spanish line, finds herself alongside the Spanish flagship, La Santisima Trinidad. This giant was by some measure the largest warship in the World, boasting four full gun decks and 130 guns. Undaunted, Captain Eliab Harvey took on the Santisima Trinidad,