Broom R R (Plt Off), Royal Air Force official photographer
Description
English: Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command
Pilots of No 132 Squadron with their CO, Squadron Leader Alan Page (holding map), and his Spitfire LF IX at Ford, 27 April 1944. Twenty-four hours earlier they had taken part in the first offensive Spitfire operation over Germany, strafing targets in the area between Aachen and Cologne. Page had been badly burned in the Battle of Britain, before resuming operational flying. He finished the war with 10 individual and several shared kills.
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Part of
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Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection
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Associated people and organisations
Page, Alan Geoffrey, Royal Air Force, 132 Squadron
Associated places
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Ford, Sussex, England, UK, K�ln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Associated events
Second World War
Associated themes
Royal Air Force 1939-1945, Fighter Command
Category
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photographs
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