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Description A Hawker Hurricane Mark IID (BP188, ‘JV-Z), of ‘B’ Flight, No. 6 Squadron RAF, based at Shandur, Egypt, in flight. Two 40mm Vickers anti-tank cannon are fitted under each wing. These anti-tank aircraft were nicknamed "Flying Can Openers".
Date circa 1942
date QS:P,+1942-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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This photograph CM 4954 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author Royal Air Force official photographer

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