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Blackburn Skua dive-bomber / fighter. This photo shows Skua Mk.II, L2928 "S" of 759 sqn.. This aircraft also served with 801 sqn. in the Norway Campaign and, flying from RAF Detling, was present at Dunkirk.

Photograph published in Aircraft of the Fighting Powers Vol I, Ed: H J Cooper, O G Thetford and D A. Russell, Harborough Publishing Co, Leicester, England 1940.

Photographer not identified, so UK Copyright contended to have lapsed 50 years after publication.

According to The Royal Navy 1939-45, Ian Sumner, 2001, Osprey Publishing, ISBN 1841761958, this image has Imperial War Museum reference number HU2326

Picture prepared for Wikipedia by Keith Edkins in April 2004.

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