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Catalogue Reference:(IWM) CH11478

This 1943 photograph shows two West Indian members of the Bombay Squadron which took part in Fighter Command flights over enemy occupied territory. Flying Officer AO Weekes of Barbados (left) and Flight Sergeant EA Joseph of San Fernando, Trinidad pose with a Spitfire fighter aircraft. Spitfires were single-seat fighters and were first used extensively in the Battle of Britain in summer 1940.

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