World War Two: French postcard depicting a British RAF Hawker Hurricane aircraft. During the 11 days of fighting in France and over Dunkirk on 10â€î21 May 1940, Hurricane pilots claimed 499 kills and 123 probable. Contemporary German records, examined post-war, attribute 299 Luftwaffe aircraft destroyed and 65 seriously damaged by RAF fighters.[37] When the last Hurricanes left France, on 21 June, of the 452 Hawker fighters engaged during the Blitzkrieg, only 66 came back to Great Britain[38] with 178 abandoned at the airfields of Merville, Abbeville, Lille/Seclin and other bases.[36]

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