Welcome to the Manston Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial website

 

 

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The Invasion of Norway
The Invasion of Holland
Air battle over Holland
 

The "Dunkirk" Web Links
From the "Fall of the Low Countries to the "Evacuation of Dunkirk"
Dunkirk Little Ships Restoration Trust

The Battle of Britain Web Links
The Luftwaffe Homepage
Bob van der Stok describes the air battle over Holland
Thameside Aviation Museum  

Men that served in the Battle of Britain
Keith Park

Second World War Web Links

*** The Battle in North Africa ***

Personalities: Adolf Galland 1912 - 1996

Personalities: Finnish Air Force aces
Valour remembered: Canada and the Second World War
The U-Boat Net
The March To Victory: Guide to WWII Battlefields
The Aviation History On-Line

Flug Werk

 

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BURY MODEL FLYING CLUB
The BMFC Gallery Page

Combat Aircraft of the Pacific War

Alphabetical Index

New pages

Allied Fighters

Allied bombers

Japanese Aircraft

Aircraft of Other Theatres

Campaigns and Battles of the Pacific War

Japanese Aircraft

Fighters

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero-Sen 'Zeke'  -  fighter-bomber

Kawanishi N1K Shiden - 'George' - Navy fighter-bomber

Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa 'Oscar' -  Japanese Army fighter

Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate 'Frank' - Japanese Army fighter

Kawasaki Ki-61 'Tony'- Army fighter

 

 

 

Bombers & Torpedo Aircraft

D3A 'Val'and D4A 'Judy' -  dive-bombers

Nakajima 'Kate' and 'Jill' -  torpedo-bombers
Mitsubishi G3M 'Nell' - long-range torpedo-bomber

Mitsubishi G4M 'Betty' - long-range torpedo-bomber

Kawanishi H8K 'Emily' - maritime patrol and attack flying boat

 

 

Allied Fighters

F4F & FM Wildcat - US Navy and Marine Corps fighter

Grumman F6F Hellcat - shipborne fighter-bomber

Chance-Vought F4U Corsair - USN and Marine Corps fighter-bomber

Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
Beaufighter - British and Australian night fighter and strike aircraft

Supermarine Spitfire / Seafire - British fighter

Bell P-39 Airacobra

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk - US Army fighter-bomber

North American P-51 Mustang - US army long-range fighter

 

 

Allied Bombers and Torpedo Aircraft
Carrier Aircraft

TBF / TBM Avenger  -  torpedo-bomber

Douglas SBD Dauntless - dive-bomber

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver - the SBD's successor

Maritime Patrol Flying Boats
Consolidated PBY Catalina - maritime patrol bomber

Martin PBM Mariner - maritime patrol bomber

Land-based Bombers
North American B-25 Mitchell  -  medium bomber

Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortress' - heavy bomber
Consolidated B-24 Liberator - heavy bomber
Beaufighter - British and Australian night fighter and strike aircraft

 

 

Other Aircraft

The Battle of Britain - Commemorative images
The Supermarine Spitfire
Hawker Hurricane

De Havilland Mosquito - British fighter-bomber

Sunderland - Short S25 - British maritime patrol flying boat
Yakovlev Yak-1 and Yak-9 - Soviet fighters

 

 

Some Naval Aircraft
Fairey Swordfish - British torpedo-bomber

Hawker Sea Fury - British fighter-bomber
Grumman F8F Bearcat - postwar USN fighter-bomber

 

Battles & Campaigns of the Pacific War

Guadalcanal

The Battle of the Philippine Sea
The Battle for Leyte Gulf
The Battle off Samar

 

 

New Pages

Brewster F2A Buffalo - US shipborne and land-based fighter

Bristol Beaufighter - British and Australian  torpedo fighter

Bristol Beaufort - British / Australian torpedo bomber

Supermarine Spitfire - British fighter

Hawker Hurricane

Supermarine Spitfire

Spitfire Mark ISpitfires in the PacificProfile Images

Spitfire - Origins and Development

Spitfire VB vs Focke-Wulf 190Spitfire IX vs Focke-Wulf 190A

Spitfire XIV vs Focke-Wulf 190ASpitfire XIV vs Messerschmitt 109G

The Reconnaissance Spitfires

Battle of Britain duel - Malan versus Moelders

The Spitfire's partner - the Hawker Hurricane 
Aircraft of the Pacific War

Acknowledgments
The profile drawings are reproduced, with thanks, from
'Brtish Warplanes of World War II' by Daniel J. March (Grange Books, 2000)
 

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