Mounted print of Flight Lieutenant Patrick Gifford of 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron over East Lothian attacling an enemy aircraft which crashed in the sea off Port Seton
The first fighter actions of the Second World War in British skies took place over the Firth of Forth on 16 October 1939 when spitfires of two Scottish squadrons of the Auxiliary Air Force engaged and destroyed German raiders

From an original artwork by Dugald Cameron © 1985