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FEATURES THE WAY TO HEAVEN On the morning of 27 September 1940, eleven pilots of 303 (Polish) Squadron were scrambled from their base at Northolt to intercept a German raid heading for London. Climbing through the low grey cloud and haze, the Hurricanes suddenly burst out into the clear morning sunlight - a scene recreated by the aviation artist Mark Postlethwaite. Just twenty minutes later they were "bounced" by a number of Messerschmitt Bf 109s and were fighting for their lives. We retrace the story of that autumn day and the careers and fate of those eleven young men. CARVED WITH PRIDE Many thousands of hours of dedicated work by members of the West Riding Woodcarvers' Association have gone into producing a remarkable pair of memorial panels depicting scenes from the First and Second World Wars, reveals Steven Lumley. SLAUGHTER ONÅÃ
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