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Dedicated to the Pilot, who was never found.
On June 28th 1942, a lone Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk bearing the 260 Squadron “HS” squadron code and the aircraft letter “B” settled down over a wide and remote expanse of North African sand desert called Al Wadi al Jadid. Perhaps low on fuel, perhaps lost, or with mechanical problems, the RAF pilot chose to land in the vast North African Sahara. With his landing gear locked down, he flared low over the sand and settled onto it. The gear snapped off, the desert camouflaged P-40 collapsed onto its belly and slid for a hundred meters or more shedding its radiators and propeller hub. The pilot was never seen again...
This pilot was almost certainly Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping of 260 Squadron, a 24 year old son of a British dentist who went missing while ferrying this aircraft for repairs in 1942.