| 6 September 1939.
First Fighter Command losses WW2.
56 Squadron
Hurricane I L1985
P/O. M L. Hulton-Harrop +
Accidentally attacked and shot down by 74 Squadron Spitfires near Ipswich.
56 Squadron.
Hurricane I L1980
P/O. F C. Rose. Safe. (F/O. F C. Rose was killed in action on 18 May 1940)
As above. The aircraft was repaired and was lost when HMS Glorious was sunk on 8 June 1940.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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