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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1830604" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10603380_297004337149785_7992423563717569050_n.jpg?oh=e2c7fecea093952cd2533a90f58097ee&amp;oe=5622A514" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> RAF Hawker Typhoon (Tiffy) firing it's RP-3 rockets.On 10 July at Mortain, Normandy, flying in support of the US 30th Infantry Division against a German counter-attack, Typhoons flew 294 sorties in the afternoon of that day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 short tons (73 t) of bombs. They engaged the German formations while the US 9th Air Force prevented German fighters from intervening. &quot;The chief credit in smashing the enemy's spearhead, however, must go to the rocket-firing Typhoon aircraft of the Second Tactical Air Force... The result of the strafing was that the enemy attack was effectively brought to a halt, and a threat was turned into a great victory.&quot; Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1830604, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10603380_297004337149785_7992423563717569050_n.jpg?oh=e2c7fecea093952cd2533a90f58097ee&oe=5622A514[/IMG] RAF Hawker Typhoon (Tiffy) firing it's RP-3 rockets. On 10 July at Mortain, Normandy, flying in support of the US 30th Infantry Division against a German counter-attack, Typhoons flew 294 sorties in the afternoon of that day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 short tons (73 t) of bombs. They engaged the German formations while the US 9th Air Force prevented German fighters from intervening. "The chief credit in smashing the enemy's spearhead, however, must go to the rocket-firing Typhoon aircraft of the Second Tactical Air Force... The result of the strafing was that the enemy attack was effectively brought to a halt, and a threat was turned into a great victory." Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander [/QUOTE]

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