Blitzkrieg Gallery

The first production Hawker Hurricane Mk.I, L1547 in 1937. The Hurricane was the most numerous fighter available the the RAF operating in France in 1940. Early Hurricanes were fitted with a two-blade Watts propeller.

Tom Fitzgerald in the cockpit of his Fairey Battle, Abingdon, 1939

Flying Officer Raymond Kean

The control column of Hurricane I  L1826, the aircraft  in which Cobber Kain died on 7 June 1940.

Vapour trails from the aerial dogfights over St Paul’s Cathedral, London during the Battle of Britain, 1940.

The control column of Hurricane I  L1826, the aircraft  in which Cobber Kain died on 7 June 1940.

RAF Westland Lysander aircraft in formation. The Lysanders of the RAF Air Component suffered heavy losses to German fighters in 1940.

Pilots of 103 Squadron, Advanced Air Striking Force in France, 1940. Tom Fitzgerald of Timaru on the right.

Pilot Officer Ian Anstey

Wing Commander Alan Deere in his Spitfire later in World War Two

Flying Officer Edgar James “Cobber” Kain DFC MUS9903411

An RAF Fairey Battle Mk.I light bomber; K7558 was the first production aircraft built.