Almost Home by Robert Taylor. SIG253 HMS Hermes and her escorts

HMS Hermes and her escorts are in the extreme distance

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Robert Watts captures the romance of that golden era of passenger flight in his nostalgic painting of a L-1049 Constellation

Situated on the south eastern tip of Kent

Flight Lieutenant Tom Wingham

Almost Home by Robert Taylor. SIG253 HMS Hermes and her escortsDHM6611. Almost Home by Robert Taylor. night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate, careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers