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The Hawker Hurricane |
 | | Four squadrons were transferred to France to participate in the idle "Sitting War", with one shooting down a German Dornier Do-17P reconnaissance aircraft on 30 October 1939. |
 | | The RAF used the breathing space to rebuild their squadrons, and when the Luftwaffe began to pound Britain in earnest in August, beginning the "Battle of Britain", the RAF had 32 squadrons of Hurricanes and 19 squadrons of Spitfires. |
 | | Two RAF squadrons, Numbers 81 and 134, were built up in the summer of 1941 and sent to Murmansk on the HMS Argus, along with 200 Hurricanes in crates. |
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