Bristol Blenheim - Sweat Shirt Lightning Vol II - Ian Black A comfortable shirt to wear

A comfortable shirt to wear at 185gsm with tubular short sleeves

Flown by Major Wallace E Hopkins of 374th FS

torpedo bomber and night fighter

The programme was shrouded in security until it was revealed to the public in 1988

Stripes were used again in later conflicts such as Korea and the operation in the Suez

Bristol Blenheim - Sweat Shirt Lightning Vol II - Ian Black A comfortable shirt to wearBristol Blenheim The Bristol Blenheim was a light bomber, originally built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company as commercial aircraft in the mid 1930s, it became an important and was extensively used as a bomber by the RAF in the early 1940s. It was an advanced design for its time.