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BATTLE OF BRITAIN LARGE PENCIL DRAWING 4TH SEPT 1940 "BREAK BETWEEN SORTIES 10 GROUP BOSCOMBE DOWN" AMAZING DRAWING WHICH WAS DRAWN DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN DATED SEPT 4TH 1940,ALSO WRITEN IS BREAK BETWEEN SORTIES 10 GROUP BOSCOMBE DOWN,WOULD SUIT BEING FRAME AND IS UNSIGNED This is the date after Hitler's chances will rapidly dwindle. The weather holds good in a miraculous manner but there are faint premonitory puffs of wind from the South- West and a chill in the air. Dispatches received through Switzerland say that there are the beginnings of a press campaign in Germany breaking the news to the people that England is to be subdued by blockade and bombing. If this is true, Hitler is on the downgrade. I can’t for the life of me puzzle out what the Germans are up to. They have great air power and yet are dissipating it in fruitless and aimless attacks all over England. They must have an exaggerated idea of the damage they are doing and the effects of their raids on public morale. . . . Just as I finish writing this, the heavy guns commence giving tongue and the little Irish maid comes in to turn down the bed. She went over to Victoria to see the plane which crashed there and is very pleased because she saw the dead German crew extracted from the wreckage. Since 1936 the most conspicuous airfield along the length of the Great North Road the A1 - has been Dishforth. Three miles north of Boroughbridge, it borders the eastern side of the road which, until recent improvements, was slightly elevated providing a panorama of the airfield that could not fail to be noticed. An expansion scheme establishment, it had the usual grass surface of some 200 acres with a crescent of Type C hangars fronting the bombing circle, five in number with the fifth tucked in behind the fourth and backed by the technical workshops and administrative offices. Behind these the communal buildings and barracks, all in brick, steel and concrete and centrally heated. By January 1937 work was far enough advanced for No. 10 Squadron and its Heyfords to be brought up from Boscombe Down and the following month for No. 78 Squadron to arrive from the same station with the same aircraft type. In March, No. 10 Squadron became the first to convert to the Whitley, then considered a heavy bomber. No. 78 also received Whitleys but the supply was slow and it was not fully equipped until the summer. On the outbreak of hostilities, No. 78 was a reserve squadron in No. 4 Group so it did not go to war from this station. On the other hand No. 10 despatched the first sorties from Dishforth on September 8 when that evening eight Whitleys were sent to distribute leaflets over Germany. No. 78 was moved to Linton-on-Ouse in December 1939 in an exchange with No. 51 Squadron. In July 1940, No. 10 was moved to Leeming and No. 78 returned from Linton and entered operations. No. 78 operated at Dishforth until the following April when it left for Middleton St George. No. 51 Squadron, a longer tenant, was not moved until May 1942 when it was loaned to Coastal Command and based at Chivenor. During the early war years a number of pan type hardstandings were put down, mostly on long access tracks, two crossing the A1. Bomber Command was then planning to raise an all-Royal Canadian Air Force group and in June 1942 a new squadron, No. 425, was formed at Dishforth to fly Wellingtons. It undertook its first raid on the night of October 5 and ten days later a second RCAF squadron, No. 426, was formed, also to fly Wellingtons, becoming operational on the night of January 14/15, 1943. At this time Dishforth came under No. 6 Group, the formal transfer having occurred on New Year's Day. MEASURES 15" LONG BY 22" HIGH In our shop you will also find a wide range of other paintings in various styles from Pre-1900 to modern Abstract and many styles in between. So please take a look, you will not be disappointed. THE ABOVE IS PAYPAL ONLY BUT WE ACCEPT CHEQUES AND POSTAL ORDERS IN THE UK AND SELL A... 
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