We have had a small number of tickets returned by people who are now unable to attend Members' Day on Saturday. These tickets are now available to Members on a first come, first served basis via the link below:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/battle-of-britain-memorial-flight-club
This month one lucky Club member will win a sparkling afternoon tea for two at the Petwood Hotel in Lincolnshire.
All current members have been automatically entered into this month’s ballot.
Header Image: Hawker Hurricane Mk IIBs of 151 Wing RAF at Vaenga, near Murmansk in the USSR, in September 1941.
Eighty years ago, on 7th September 1941, as part of Operation Benedict, 24 Mk IIB Hurricanes of 81 and 134 Squadrons were flown off the aircraft carrier HMS Argus to land at the Soviet airfield at Vaenga (now Severomorsk), a few miles north-east of Murmansk in the northern USSR, to provide reinforcements for the Soviet fighter defences. (Germany had invaded Russia on 22nd June 1941.) Another 15 Hurricanes in crates, along with 2,600 RAF personnel, were delivered by sea to Archangelsk by the first Arctic Convoy. These Hurricanes were assembled, in primitive conditions, in just nine days and were flown to Vaenga on 12th September.
