Was digging around a bit; for the props I searched around for Spitfires as well, and found this comment:
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What is beyond doubt is that Rotol props with wooden blades were over Dunkirk but fitted to Hurricanes with RX5/2 props with Weybridge DR.291 blades or possibly RX5/5 props with Jablo RA.4067 blades.
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As we all know, the Hurricane was intially fitted with a Watts 2-bladed prop with a small pointed spinner. This was followed by a De Havilland 2-position prop, followed shortly thereafter with a De Hsavilland costant speed 'bracket' prop, both of which had the shorter but rather pointed spinner. About March 1940 the Rotol RX5/2 was introduced on the Hurricane with the rather longer but stubby looking spinner.
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taken from here:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=87258
So it seems that there were 3 blade wooden props around, would explain the broken prop blades (rather than bent). Images of a Ju88 with wooden broken props I have seen looked same, clean straight cuts when broken.
The black/white underpaint seems to indicate France:
http://www.wonwinglo.scale-models.net/id47.htm
Scroll down to the Hurricane just past the He111 pattern.
If you do a google search you find more images with black/bright under pants:
http://www.nvva.nl/renekrul/catalogs...ne.l.--kt-.jpg
Some earlies had precious little markings:
http://homepages.tesco.net/~mrogers/...story-pg3.html
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/unitedki...ne-mk-i-01.jpg
However hard to say what happened to the markings.
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Early Hurricanes lacked armour or self-sealing tanks. They used "ring and bead" gunsights, with the ring being mounted above the instrument panel and the bead mounted on a post above the engine cowling. The standard GM2 reflector gunsight was introduced in mid-1939, although many Hurricanes retained the "bead".
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Looks like the Hurri in the pics is one of those that retained the bead.
4 Wing guns, outer bays are for lights.
Gun camera seem to have been mounted outside, near the guns themselves, while closer inside at wing roots there was oil tank indeed:
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace...ne-cutaway.jpg
This might be a gun cam mount, albeit in other wing:
http://mm04.nasaimages.org/MediaMana...sa&profileid=9
Bad quality, but shows something round on left wing which does not exist on right wing. Maybe really connected with oil tank as seems only one oil tank in the plane, not in both wings.
Plenty of rough field in front of airplane, guess it came down wheels up and then turned around just before it got to a stop.
Two of these fellow have seemingly same strip at uniform collar, and they sure look German to me:
http://crbolch.com/hurricanedown2.jpg
As do the 3 fellows at bottom of engine in this pic:
http://crbolch.com/do17&crew.jpg
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