Destination: Libya. Tornado GR.4s of 9 Squadron by Ivan Berryman. (AP) REG219 Horatio Hornblower

Horatio Hornblower

Despite appalling losses

next to Camp Bastion

tailplane and rudder

6th June 1944 by Simon Smith

Destination: Libya. Tornado GR.4s of 9 Squadron by Ivan Berryman. (AP) REG219 Horatio HornblowerB0476AP. Destination: Libya. Tornado GR. 4s of 9 Squadron by Ivan Berryman. At the start of the No Fly Zone and in support of Libyan rebel forces, Tornado GR. 4s of 9 Sqn were despatched from RAF Marham on 19th and 20th March 2011 for two of the longest operational missions since the Falklands campaign of 1982, each aircraft completing an 8 hour, 3000 mile round trip to destroy Libyan army ground weapons that were being used against civilians to quell