USAAF Spitfire Mk.V training for the Dieppe Raid (August 1942)

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  • Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
  • Deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in June 1942, the 309th Fighter Squadron was re-equipped with RAF Spitfire Vs and its pilots and technicians spent a two-month period undergoing intensive training in flying and fighting with RAF pilots in the British aircraft from airfields in southeast England.
    The squadron flew its first combat mission on 18 August 1942, when it attacked enemy positions in occupied France.
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    Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid was an Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment of tanks, were put ashore from a naval force operating under protection of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighters.
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