Mounted print of Flight Lieutenant George Pinkerton of 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron in action attacking a Junkers Ju. 88 of KG30 which subsequently crashed in the sea off Crail. 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