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On top of this month’s ballot prize for Club members, we’re also giving away a bonus prize – a family ticket for The D-Day Story, a new museum in Portsmouth. The family ticket is valid for up to two adults and three children and would usually cost £25.

Complete the entry form below by 30th September 2019 to be in with a chance of winning. This competition is open to everybody, so please do share it with your friends and family. The winner will be drawn at random and contacted by email in October.

Header image: Officers of 602 Sqn pose for a group photograph at Westhampnett during the Battle of Britain in 1940. John Hart is fourth from left in the back row. Remarkably all the pilots in this picture survived the Battle of Britain, although four of them were killed in action during the following year.

As we approach Battle of Britain Day on 15th September, the number of living veteran airmen who flew and fought in the Battle in 1940 has dwindled further with the deaths of two of ‘The Few’ in the last few weeks.

Header image: Arnhem Bridge today, the site of an epic battle in September 1944.

The Battle of Arnhem – Operation Market Garden – which took place between 17th and 25th September 1944, was made famous by the book and film of the same name ‘A Bridge Too Far’. This month sees the 75th anniversary of the epic, costly and ultimately unsuccessful battle, with large scale commemorations planned to take place in the Netherlands.