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[Dixie]

Probably a Spitfire squadron.  Most of the RAF cartoons of the era featured Spitfires, plus there's enough features to make me think that the a/c is a caricature of one....

[Hard Sarge]

yes, but look at how high up the tail plane is ? the spit is low, and the one in the corner is flying away while the rest are flying towards you, and that one also has "props" on the wings, so do not believe they are "mg" being fired

[Dixie]

I think the other 'planes in the top picture are probably meant to be LW bombers, rather than RAF fighters.  The RAF pilot has gone off attacking bombers on his own and been bounced by the escorts possibly.  It would be interesting to know for certain though...

[samarobriva]

that's correct and the 'forget me not' is NEVER break formation to do as an individual attack. He who hunts on his own won't live long to enjoy it. for the fist part of the drawing
I don't havr any exact date for the release of the book but it appears that it was in 1940 from the other drawings too.

[tblersch]

ORIGINAL: harley

I gotta respond to this one.

I ain't no schoolboy. I am a 37 year old IT professional. I am presently doing a Masters Degree in Information Systems Security. Our other programmer is a professional in his field, also. I'll leave it to him to describe his situation.

Okay, schoolman...

[:D] I kid. I've been where you are, sans the volunteer work putting together a marketable computer game (and believe me, if I could dedicate any time to BTR I would have volunteered to help out years ago. I don't even have time to play it right now.) Really...do people not understand that this game is being written by a couple of guys who are volunteering their time? I don't know who the third programmer is, but I do know that Harley and Hard Sarge have been working on this for...what, are we going on a decade now, all the way back to the original OOB updates? Harley, I still have your original BTR editor on my desktop. The idea that anyone should be ungrateful for all that effort is stunning. The effort may not be literally "professional" (at least, I don't think you're getting paid for it)...but suggesting it's amateurish is ridiculous.

Nice to see that that particular ignorance appears to be in the extreme minority here.

[von Shagmeister]

Waynno is the other programmer, him and Harley are dealing with the code.

[harley]

Waynn/Waynno == USS Maine on the board...