RAF WWII

The Royal Air Force in WWII. From the Phoney War and the Battle of France, through to the Battle of Britain, D-Day and VE Day and VJ Day.

 


1:72 Airfix hawker Hurricane I – L1932 – Royal Air Force 3 Sqn – RAF Biggin Hill mid-September 1939


Thursday 23 May 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia N3290 GR-U 92 Sqn RAF Hornchurch, , Northern France patrol sweep.


Arma Hobby 1:72 Hurricane Mk.I “Battle of Britain” Flight.Lt. Ian Gleed, 87 Sqn September 1940, RAF Exeter.


1941 Curtiss Tomahawk IIB – Sqn Ldr Wykeham-Barnes, 73 Sqn, El Gamil, Egypt.


Airfix 1:72 Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley GR.VII Z6967 GR-U 502 (Ulster) Sqn RAF, RAF Limavady Northern Ireland, 24 November 1941


1:72 DoraWings Westland Lysander III(SD) built as T1508 of 138Sqn January 1942, Operation BERYL.


Early 1942 Supermarine Spitfire Va – Douglas Bader


Summer 1942 Hawker Hurricane IIc – 3 Sqn RAF – RAF Hunsdon


Airfix Hawker Tempest V Series I (Early) – 150 Wing Wg.Cdr.Roland “Bee” Beamont, RAF Newchurch, May 1944


Hawker Tempest V Series I (Early) – 3 Sqn RAF, RAF Newchurch June 1944


Autumn 1944 Supermarine Spitfire P.XIX – 541 Sqn RAF – RAF Benson


26 October 1944 P-38J “Droop Snoot” lightning with ELINT conversion – 192 Sqn RAF – RAF Foulsham


Tamiya 1:72 DH.98 Mosquito FB.VI built as HR241 of 169 (SD) Sqn, 100Gp RAF, RAF Little Snoring. November 1944.


1:72 KP (Kovozávody Prostějov) Hawker Tempest V Series II NV724 JF-E Pierre Clostermann. 3 Sqn Royal Air Force – 2nd Tactical Air Force 1945


DH.98 Mosquito B.XVI, PF510 6T-D 608 Sqn RAF Downham Market, Norfolk – 2nd May 1945 – “The Last Raid”.