Groundcrew from No. 122 Squadron RAF play a game of draughts while waiting for their aircraft to return from an operation over France, Hornchurch, 7 May 1942. This image is part of a sequence of five photographs taken on 7 May 1942 at Hornchurch, and later released by the Ministry of Information to illustrate a typical offensive operation. In this photograph we see members of No 122 Squadron while away the time with a game of draughts - using washers and circlips as playing pieces - as they return for the Spitfires on operation to return.

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