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Bf109 down in the Channel BW version
During the Battle of Britain, German pilots began to suffer increasingly from Kanalkrankheit or "Channel sickness": excuses not to fly over the English Channel. Operating at the limit of their fuel range in England meant that if they were shot down over land they would be captured and over the water they were in danger of drowning. In this Flight Artworks depiction a Hawker Hurricane fighter from 11 Group of RAF Fighter Command has shot down a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109E: its pilot, descending by parachute, is going into the sea.
More on this in the Aerial Combat blog.
© Gary Eason gary@easonmedia.com to license
Picture keywords: aerial combat, air combat, Battle of Britain, Channel sickness, coastline, dogfight, Dorset, English Channel, Fighter Command 11 Group, fighter pilots, Hawker Hurricane Mk I, Kanalkrankheit, Luftwaffe, Messerschmitt Bf 109E, RAF, summer 1940, white cliffs
Published in: Battle of Britain, Black and white
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