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Hawker Hurricane Mark I

Aircraft & Exhibits, JAN 1940-MAY 1972, London, Hangar Three/Four, 72/A/1404

The Hawker Hurricane Mk I entered service in 1937 as the RAF's first eight-gun monoplane. During the Battle of Britain Hurricanes were more numerous than Spitfires and shot down over 60% of all German aircraft destroyed.

Single engine aircraft with propeller and camouflage pattern, © RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftsman John Edgar Hare, 8 November 2016

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3346

Recorded interview with John Hare, who served as an engine fitter on Halifax aircraft in the UK and Dakota transport aircraft in the Middle East during the Second World War.

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