"American Aircraft in RAF Service 1939-1945- Curtis Hawk 87a Kittyhawk." Kittyhawk Mark I, AL219 'GA-C', of No. 112 Squadron RAF, taxying through the dust at Gambut Satellite No. 1, Libya, before taking off on a ground attack mission with a 250-lb GP Bomb under the fuselage. AL219 was lost during the Battle of Gazala when it failed to return from a ground attack mission in the evening of 4 June 1942; its Canadian pilot, Pilot Officer E Atkinson was killed.