White-out at Breighton - Tribute to No.78 Squadron by Ivan Berryman. TRK1 By the summer of 1943

By the summer of 1943 the Blond Knight and his colleagues were flying up to six missions a day and having now perfected his technique

the world's first efficient air-cooled machine gun

part of a larger formation of the Banff Strike Wing

Orders Group by John Wynne Hopkins

(out of a crew of 643 - 487 were dead

White-out at Breighton - Tribute to No.78 Squadron by Ivan Berryman. TRK1 By the summer of 1943DHM6297. White out at Breighton Tribute to No. 78 Squadron by Ivan Berryman. With the departure of No 1 Group in May 1943, No 4 Group's 78 Sqn Halifaxes arrived at Breighton in Yorkshire from where they would continue to operate until the end of the war. Halifax III LW291 (EY M) is depicted snowbound in the Winter of 1944, not long before it was lost over Grossmutz whilst taking part on a raid on Berlin on 20th January 1944. Crew of EY M : Pilot :