{"id":1589990,"date":"2022-07-15T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/?p=1589990"},"modified":"2024-07-03T11:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:43:32","slug":"hurribombers-over-dieppe-70054","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/blog\/2022\/07\/15\/hurribombers-over-dieppe-70054\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurribombers over Dieppe"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year marks the 80th<\/sup> anniversary of Operation Jubilee, which took place on 19 August 1942. The landing on the beaches of Dieppe was in itself a severe military defeat, with the Allied forces suffering heavy losses, but the conclusions drawn from this logistically complicated operation, in which different branches of service worked together, made it possible to better prepare for the assaults on Sicily, the Apennine Peninsula, and \u2013 finally \u2013 Normandy. Hurricane squadrons participated in it in large numbers, drawing to a close the type\u2019s rich combat history in the European Theatre of Operations. <\/p>\n

At Dieppe, the Hurricane was used as a battlefield aircraft, tasked with destroying enemy fire points and artillery positions located on the wings and in the immediate vicinity of the German front line. In fact, only two of the Hurribomber squadrons had the training and armament required for the mission. Most of the other units had been operating in the night-fighter and intruder role for quite some time before the raid, and it was not uncommon for their \u201cpreparations\u201d to consist in a single training flight (during which they were hurriedly taught how to fire at ground targets) and changing the camouflage from black to one more suited to day flying.<\/p>\n

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Dieppe – landing site. 1945 photo. Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration\/Public Domain
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It is not my intention to copy the literature discussing Dieppe. I will focus on providing a general outline and analyse some interesting aspects of the Hurricanes\u2019 involvement in Operation Jubilee, and also talk over the painting instructions, which cover eight Hurricanes from four squadrons: Nos. 43, 87, 174 and 175. The ambition to develop paint schemes for Hurricanes from all eight RAF units that took part in the assault could not be fulfilled due to a prosaic reason, namely the complete lack of photographic materials for Nos. 3, 32, 245 and 253 Squadrons RAF from the period in question. In the first edition of the Mk.IIb model, we presented BE682\/XP-R \u201cMauritius VII\u201d, which also took part in the operation.<\/p>\n

Hurribomber Mk. IIb ze 174 dywizjonu RAF<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n