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British English: Royal Air Force (RAF) Pilot Officer A.V. 'Taffy' Clowes of No. 1 Squadron RAF, climbing into his Hawker Hurricane Mk.I (P3395 'JX-B'), in a dispersed revetment at RAF Wittering, Huntingdonshire (UK). Note Clowes' personal 'wasp ' emblem under the engine exhausts, in October 1940. P3395 was passed on to No. 55 Operational Training Unit on 8 November 1940. Transferred to No. 5 Flying Training School, it was written off after a wheels-up landing at RAF Tern Hill on 24 March 1942.
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This photograph CH 17331 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author S.A. Devon, Royal Air Force official photographer

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