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Summary
A Royal Navy Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 of 897 or 899 Naval Air Squadron is armed aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle (R05) in preparation for a strike on an Egyptian airfield.
Suez Crisis, (1956), international crisis in the Middle East, precipitated on July 26, 1956, when the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal. The canal had been owned by the Suez Canal Company, which was controlled by French and British interests.
Tags
great britain
united kingdom
899 naval air squadron
black and white photographs
collections of the imperial war museum
hms eagle r 05
hawker sea hawk
suez crisis
uk government artistic works
Date
01/11/1956
in collections
Source
UK Government artistic works
Link
Copyright info
public domain