1. As the sky grew black with the puffballs of massed anti–aircraft fire from the fleet, the suicide bombers dived steeply, often with US Hellcat fighter planes on their tails.

2. With his arrester hook shot away, the Hellcat pilot was unable to make a flight–deck landing and was compelled to ditch near the Canadian destroyer, which manoeuvred close to him.

3. Pierss contribution to Operation Tungsten, as it was styled, was to rescue the pilot of one of the Hellcat fighters that had escorted the Barracuda bombers to the target.

4. Suddenly she was in our faces as a curvaceous, foul–mouthed hellcat who smoked, rowed with her mother, got bladdered, dated a succession of unsuitable boyfriends with a penchant for selling their stories to the tabloids, and slagged off her peers.

5. Mk.VC Spitfire, built in England in 1'40. –– Curtiss Wright P–40C Tomahawk, built in the U.S. in 1'41. –– Nakajima Ki–43–1b Hayabusa, built in Japan in 1'42. –– Polikarpov U–2/PO–2, built in Russia in 1'44. –– North American Aviation P–51D Mustang, built in the U.S. in 1'45. –– Fieseler Fi–156–C2 Storch, built in Germany in 1'43. –– Fieseler Fi–103/V–1 "Buzz Bomb," built in Germany in 1'45. –– Fieseler Fi–103R Reichenburg, built in Germany in 1'44. –– Grumman F6F–5 Hellcat, built in the U.S. in 1'45. –– Republic P–47D Thunderbolt, built in the U.S. in 1'45. –– Boeing B–17E "Flying Fortress," built in the U.S. in 1'42; in restoration, with some parts of plane being shown. –– Nakajima A6M5 Model 52 Zero–Sen, built in Japan in 1'44, on display in unrestored condition. –– Hawker Hurricane Mk.