The Channel Dash by Ivan Berryman (AP) SQN442 perhaps its most notable achievement

perhaps its most notable achievement being support for the longest-range bombing mission in history when a Vulcan bombed the runway at Port Stanley

Winston Churchill is shown with a background of Stuka dive bombers and Royal Air Force fighter pilots scrambling to their Hurricanes and Spitfires

the squadron played a notable part in the Battle of Britain

Royal Warwickshire Regiment (6th Foot) by Richard Simkin

The Channel Dash by Ivan Berryman (AP) SQN442 perhaps its most notable achievementDHM1188AP. The Channel Dash by Ivan Berryman. February 1942 and Viz. Admiral Ciliaxs mighty Scharnhorst leads her sister Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen up the English Channel during Operation Cerberus, their daring breakout from the port of Brest on the French Atlantic coast to the relative safety of Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuttel. All three ships survived what became known as the Channel Dash, not without damage, but the operation proved a huge propaganda