Two colour photographs of a largely forgotten British warbird, the Handley-Page Hampden medium bomber.

Two colour photographs of a largely forgotten British warbird, the Handley-Page Hampden medium bomber. Fairly outdated by the start of WW2, the Hampden nonetheless helped spearhead the RAF’s bomber offensive for the first few years of the war by bombing German invasion ports on the coast of France, dropping mines along German shipping routes and attacking targets across Germany and Western Europe until it was replaced by other aircraft better suited for the role.