The British efforts, and the British victory ... did more to win the Battle of Britain than the Spitfire—the Hawker Hurricane. The Spitfire Was the RAF’s Showhorse—but the Hurricane Was ...

Such a statement leaves out the Hawker Hurricane, the other frontline fighter ... Overy has chipped away at some of the crustiest legends: that the British public was 100 percent behind its ...

Just after midday on the morning of the 7th January 1940 a Mk1 (revised) Hawker Hurricane, No. L2074 of RAF St Athan piloted by Pilot Officer Alan Harry Maguire, crashed into Mynydd William ...