Eagle Squadron Hurricane Skin

Originally Posted by Osprey

lol, I never realised that RAF Debden had a manor house built directly outside where they parked their mix of Hurricanes and Spitfires.

It was all a bit of a joke, Affleck fighting 109's in the BOB directly over the cliffs despite the fact that RAF71 was based near Cambridge and more importantly the fact that RAF 71 didn't get Hurricanes until about 1941 - they were on Buffalo's before then story is that they groundlooped them in order to get them replaced so weren't operational until the BOB was already over.

Hollywood idiots.

They operated with Buffalo's till Nov 40 then switched to Hurricane 1's till mid may 41.

Although the official dates say that BoB was over by late Oct, battles raged on untill late Nov mid Dec, so they certainly helped.