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| Hawker Hurricane P2923 VQ-R of No. 85 Squadron, flown by Plt Off Albert G Lewis, at Castle Camps, July 1940. Imperial War Museum photo HU 104510. |
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| Hawker Hurricane Mk I P2923 VQ-R of No. 85 Squadron, flown by Pilot Officer Albert G Lewis, taxiing out at Castle Camps, July 1940. Imperial War Museum photo HU 104493. |
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| Two armorers service the machine guns of a Hawker Hurricane Mk I of No. 85 Squadron, while a third unpacks belts of .303 inch ammunition at RAF Debden, 25 July 1940. Imperial War Museum photo HU 54510. |
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| Rear view of a Hurricane of No. 85 Squadron being run up at Castle Camps, July 1940. Imperial War Museum photo HU 104485. |
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| Hawker Hurricanes of No. 85 Squadron RAF, October 1940. Imperial War Museum photo CH 1500. |
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| Hawker Hurricanes of No. 85 Squadron in flight, October 1940. Imperial War Museum photo CH 1499. |
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| Hawker Hurricane Mk Is of No. 85 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain, 1940. Imperial War Museum photo CH 1512. |
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| Hawker Hurricane Mk Is of No. 85 Squadron RAF, October 1940. Imperial War Museum photo CH 1510. |
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| Distant view of Hawker Hurricanes of No. 85 Squadron in flight, October 1940. Imperial War Museum photo CH 1498. |
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| Squadron Leader Peter Townsend, the CO of No. 85 Squadron (with walking stick) with pilots at Church Fenton, in front of one of the unit’s Hurricanes, 14 October 1940. Imperial War Museum photo CH 1473. |
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| “Defence of the Capital” by Gerald Coulson. High over London, Hurricanes of 85 Squadron engage Me 109s in an intense dogfight during the heavy fighting of August 1940. |
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| “Close Combat” by Ivan Berryman. Whilst flying with A Flight of 85 Squadron on 30th July 1940, Geoffrey Allard encountered a pair of Messerschmitt Bf.110s about 40 miles from the coast, apparently patrolling near a convoy. After Squadron Leader Townsend, flying Red 1, had made two unsuccessful attacks, Allard closed to 150 yards and began to fire continuously, eventually closing to just 25 yards, whereupon the starboard engine of the Bf.110 began to disintegrate. This was just one of eight victories that Allard claimed during the Battle of Britain to add to a previous eight that he had scored flying Hurricanes during the Battle of France. |
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| “Defence of the Realm” by Robert Taylor. In the azure skies above London and the south-eastern Shires of England during the long, hot summer of 1940, a small band of RAF fighter pilots, substantially out-numbered, and against all odds, flew and fought a savage aerial battle in defense of the Realm. Their success in repelling the might of the Luftwaffe has become legend. They were Churchill's FEW. Fresh from the heat of battle after a dog-fight over the city, No. 85 Squadrons C.O., Peter Townsend, levels off and turns his Hurricane for home to re-fuel, re-arm, and rejoin the fight. A symbolic portrayal paying tribute to the Hawker Hurricane and its legendary pilots who, between them, accounted for four of every five enemy aircraft destroyed during the momentous Battle of Britain. |