The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber developed during the mid-1930s for the Royal Air Force.
On 2 September 1939, during the "Phoney War", 10 Battle squadrons were deployed to pre-selected airfields in France.
Initial wartime missions were to perform aerial reconnaissance of the Siegfried Line during daylight
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