Winter Homecoming
Screw-ups within the Army and a lack of manufacturing equipment delayed the start of production until 1943
26th February 1991 by David Pentland Two days into Operation Desert Storm (G+2)
Wearing her unusual black and white disruptive colour scheme
following a vital sortie against Italian shipping at the start of the Battle of Cape Matapan in march 1941
Tribute to Sgt Ray Shaw, RAAF by Ivan Berryman. (AP) SPE6 Winter HomecomingB0483AP. Tribute to Sgt Ray Shaw, RAAF by Ivan Berryman. Whilst flying Curtiss Kittyhawk AK726 (O) on 22nd February 1942, Sgt Ray Shaw, assisted by Sgts Beste, Shillabeer and Kierath in similar aircraft, became the first pilot to score a victory for 450 Sqn RAAF, sending down a Ju. 88A4 south east of Gazala, Libya. The German aircraft, coded 7A+NH from 1.(F)121, suffered terminal damage to an engine and crash landed in the desert, where the crew were