<i>Armourers loading bombs onto a Spitfire Mk XVI of No. 603 Squadron RAF at Ludham in Norfolk, March 1945.</i><br>
Armourers set the tail fuses on a clutch of 500-pounders in front of a Spitfire XVI of No 603 Squadron at Ludham, March 1945. The bombs were destined for V-2 sites in the Netherlands. Rangers and interdiction sorties were also flown from this Norfolk location, but the advancing land forces would soon take the ground battle beyond the range of UK-based Spitfires.
Lamonby J (Sgt) SPRO, Royal Air Force official photographer
1945
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