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Hawker Hurricane F IIc (with its four 20mm cannon removed) at the RAF Museum, Cosford, Shropshire, 8 July 2020. LF738 was of the last Hurricanes built in 1944 and only used for training as by this time the Hurricane was long obsolete as an interceptor and coming to the end of its use as a fighter-bomber as well – although it was still operational at the war’s end. The Hurricane was the first single-seat fighter to mount rockets. It could also carry bombs and even two 40mm anti-tank cannon! When the Hurricane F I entered service in 1937 it and the Bf109 were easily the best fighters in the world, and the Hurricane was the better of the two, the early Bf109’s having low-powered Jumo 210 engines. However, by the Battle of Britain in 1940 the Spitfire and Bf109E were the better. Nonetheless, the Hurricane was still an excellent fighter and shot down more enemy aircraft in the battle than the Spitfire. Moreover, it’s rather old-fashioned construction (compared to the Spitfire and Bf109) of fabric-covered airframe meant Hurricanes could get the pilot home despite suffering considerable battle damage and then be repaired quickly to get its pilot back into the fray. The highest scoring Commonwealth ace, South African Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle, who flew for the RAF, scored 35 of his eventual total of 50+ victories on Hurricanes in the Greece campaign; he was eventually killed when, despite being told not to fly because he was suffering from the flu, he led his squadron on 20 April 1941 against Luftwaffe fighters in the Battle of Athens in which he was shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf110. He was aged just 26. One of his fellow 80 Squadron pilots, Raold Dahl, thought he was WWII’s greatest air ace. |
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| Author | Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK |
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