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The flying suitcase – inside the RAF’s most cramped bomber

The Handley Page Hampden, nicknamed “The Flying Suitcase,” was one of the RAF’s most notorious bombers of WWII. Its fuselage ...
Dark Skies Official on MSN

The bomber that hit Germany before it was ready

Before heavy bombers dominated the skies, one fragile British aircraft carried the burden of taking the fight directly to ...
EDP 24

Models of downed bomber presented to family members

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BBC

RAF Career of Cecil de Courcy - A Story About Hampden Bombers

Until recently the family of R.C.W de Courcy knew little of his career in the RAF. A Dubliner, he had been a navigator in a Hampden bomber which was shot down in the Heligoland Bight in February 1942.