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Aviation Art Prints  Countries UK Squadron Index More Squadrons Squadrons 88 to 126  No.99 Sqn |
[UP] - No.88 Sqn - No.89 Sqn - No.90 Sqn - No.91 Sqn - No.92 Sqn - No.97 Sqn - No.99 Sqn - No.100 Sqn - No.101 Sqn - No.102 Sqn - No.103 Sqn - No.104 Sqn - No.105 Sqn - No.106 Sqn - No.107 Sqn - No.109 Sqn - No.110 Sqn - No.111 Sqn - No.112 Sqn - No.120 Sqn - No.124 Sqn - No.126 Sqn |
No.99 Sqn
Country : UK
Founded : 15th August 1917
Disbanded 6th June 1976
Codes : , LN, VF,
Quisque tenax - Each tenacious
July 1940, based at Newmarket Heath.
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Overdue by Gerald Coulson. The Vickers-Armstrong Wellington entered service life in the RAF in 1938 as a medium bomber. As the mainstay of the Bomber Command, it bore the initial brunt of the RAFs night offensive during 1940. Without the benefit of sophisticated navigation aids, the bomber crews had difficulty locating and hitting targets and also contending with rapidly improving German defences. The picture depicts an incident at sunrise on the morning of 26th July 1940. A Wellington 1c of 99 Squadron, based at Newmarket Heath, returns from a raid over Dortmund. An engine fails over the North Sea and the aircraft, captained by Squadron Leader Sarll, struggled almost to its home base and crashed just south of Cambridge. The crew survived. |
Merlins Thunder by Gerald Coulson. The Avro Lancaster bomber of Bomber Command flies low over occupied Europe at speed thanks to the Merlin engines. |
Wellington Dispersal by Michael Turner Ground crews prepare 99 Squadron Wellington bombers on their snow covered airfield at Waterbeach during the bitter winter of 1940. |
Globemaster III by Ivan Berryman. Reformed in November 2000, 99 Squadron, based at Brize Norton, is now the operator of the RAF's new heavy transport, the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, an example of which is shown on the newly extended concrete runway at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The C-17s have become the mainstay of the RAF's supply train, shuttling between the UK and Afghanistan, as well as providing specialist aeromedical evacuation and humanitarian relief duties. |
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