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Air sea rescue hurricanes


brewerjerry

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Hi

Any info on the ASR hurricanes used by 276 Sqn ( nov 41 to jan 42 )

or 284 Sqn ( sep 44 to mar 45 ) or 279 Sqn ( apr to jun 45 )

think there were some others, but i cant remember which ones

I am interested in the modifications done to the a/c, wondering if it was similar to the spitfires or defiants

Cheers

Jerry

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'Dinghy Drop' - the 279 history states they had their first Hurricane on 3rd Dec 1944 (PG490) with others being delivered through December and one in Jan 45.

It states the first operational sortie was a search in conjunction with a Warwick on 27 February - the preceding page gives details of a search on 23 Feb by two Hurricanes but they were already airborne on a training sortie so I suppose that doesn't count.

Two tenths of nowt about what they carried as far as I can see though.

Ross

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