ROYAL AIR FORCE: 2ND TACTICAL AIR FORCE, 1943-1945. - Pilots of No. 245 Squadron RAF walk past their Hawker Typhoon Mark IBs to their dispersal hut at Westhampnett, Sussex, on completion of a sortie against a flying-bomb launching northern France ('Noball'). Three of the Typhoons wear cowling covers with 'chimneys' for the insertion of a heater, in order to aid the engine start. In the background is a Hawker Hurricane, used by the Squadron as a communications and training aircraft Royal Air Force, 245 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Maintenance Unit, 201

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