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Description A Royal Navy Grumman Wildcat fighter of 811 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, landing on the escort carrier HMS Biter (D97) after a successful action against a German Junker Ju 290. The German aircraft had been shadowing the convoy which HMS Biter was protecting.
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Image of the exterior main entrance to the Imperial War Museum in London. This photograph A 22241 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Flag of the United Kingdom.
Author Priest, L C (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., original uploader was Jim Sweeney at en.wikipedia. Later version(s) were uploaded by Cobatfor, Beao at en.wikipedia (1 October 2010 (first version); 17 December 2011 (last version)).

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current15:18, 18 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 15:18, 18 December 2011800 × 567 (121 KB)OgreBot(BOT): Reverting to most recent version before archival
15:17, 18 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 15:17, 18 December 2011300 × 192 (8 KB)OgreBot(BOT): Uploading old version of file from en.wikipedia; originally uploaded on 2011-10-31 01:01:35 by Jncraton
15:17, 18 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 15:17, 18 December 2011300 × 212 (9 KB)OgreBot(BOT): Uploading old version of file from en.wikipedia; originally uploaded on 2010-10-01 17:13:26 by Jim Sweeney
18:03, 17 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 18:03, 17 December 2011800 × 567 (121 KB)Cobatfor== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=A Royal Navy Grumman ''Wildcat'' fighter of 811 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, landing on the escort carrier HMS ''Biter'' (D97) after a successful action against a German Junker Ju 290. The German air

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