D-Day Albemarle - T-shirt Tornado ZA399 It's first deployment was on

It's first deployment was on the aircraft carrier USS Kittyhawk in the role of all-weather airborne early warning and command and control

torpedo bomber and target tug

Controversially the programme was scrapped by the British Government in 1965

reconnaissance and air defence

Having served in Vietnam and the Gulf war the Aardvark retired in 1996

D-Day Albemarle - T-shirt Tornado ZA399 It's first deployment was onArmstrong Whitworth Albemarle The Allied Expeditionary Air Force was formed to control the tactical air power of the Allied Air Forces during Operation Overlord. It was also a component of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. On June 6th 1944 over 12,000 allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties.