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Old 10-11-2007, 08:43 AM
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Default Handley Page HP52 Hampden

Oleg - Do you have any plans to, or interest in including the Hampden in SoW BoB?



Inset image provided by Zorin --- for comparison.
Image Source: http://www.wf.weltkrieg.ru/color/alair/index5.php
Original Source: RAF Museum - Shows Hampden Mk.1 of No.455 RAAF Squadron

The Hampden was one of the three principal heavy bombers in the RAF at the start of the war and continued in service up to 1941. During BoB the Hampdens were active in the anti-shipping role, laying mines and bombing the invasion ports. In the later period they even sent two squadrons of Hampden torpedo bombers to Murmansk as part of the defence against Tirpitz for convoy PQ18, and subsequently they were taken over by the Russian Air Force. Total number produced was 1532.