Spitfires Safely Home by Stephen Brown. SIG156DHM2624. Spitfires Safely Home by Stephen Brown. It is the winter of 1941 and heavy snow has disrupted operations for several days. A break in the weather today has brought blue skies and the opportunity for the ground crew to clear the runway of snow and get the pilots of 92 Squadron airborne. Flt. Lt. Geoffrey Wellum and his fellow fighter pilots are bringing their Spitfires safely home after the third and final sortie of the day. Signed by Squadron
provided much of the vital intelligence which enabled Allied ground forces to outflank and overwhelm Iraqi opposition with such devastation
USS Tang (SS-306) would later be sunk by its own torpedo off Formosa
As he registers the bright red circles on their wings
Following the recent loss of the pass to the British in Operation Brevity
Group Captain Ken Hubbard
Caucasus Dawn by Graeme Lothian
After the last aircraft had released its bombs
Image size 12 inches x 20 inches (31cm x 51cm)
Crash Action by David Rowlands
as a ship with no figurehead was considered a ship with no eyes and no soul
the 322ft long SS Great Britain of 1843 was the first ocean-going vessel to be made entirely of metal and also the first to be propeller-driven
Grayston (deceased) and Corporal Kenneth Lucas (deceased)