D-Day Avenger - T-shirt Dambusters West German Luftwaffe and Portuguese

West German Luftwaffe and Portuguese Air Force operated the aircraft right up to 1995

Later in the war the aircraft found its true role when up against the Luftwaffe's FW 190 and when armed with 20mm Hispano auto cannons it became a formidable ground attack aircraft

V-Force is made up of the Vickers Valiant

airframes and avionics

Handley Page continued into the cold-war era with the Victor

D-Day Avenger - T-shirt Dambusters West German Luftwaffe and PortugueseGrumman TBF Avenger The Allied Expeditionary Air Force was formed to control the tactical air power of the Allied Air Forces during Operation Overlord. It was also a component of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. On June 6th 1944 over 12,000 allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties.