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| The Fairey Swordfish was such a successful design which, despite its antiquated appearance, outclassed the aircraft intended to replace it and served throughout the Second World War. |
| The most often quoted casualty statistics. |
| Linda Kitson was commissioned in April 1982 and sailed on the QE2 with British troops bound for the Falklands. |
| The first bomb was dropped on British soil on Christmas Eve 1914. |
| The first Second World War bomb was dropped on British soil on May 10, 1940. |
| The Second World War in the Far East (1941-1945) was fought with gruelling intensity between the Allies and the Japanese on land, at sea and in the air over vast distances, and in extremes of climate and geography. |
| Tragedy struck at Freckleton, Lancashire, on August 23, 1944, when an American B-24 bomber on a test flight overshot the runway while trying to land at the American air base at Warton during a violent storm. |
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