Supero
Sergeant Pilot F. H. Dean of No. 274 Squadron RAF examines belts of .303 ammunition before they are installed in his Hurricane at Sidi Barrani, Egypt, circa early 1941.
IWM (CM 868)
In the background, one of the groundcrews attaches a trolley accumulator to Hawker Hurricane Mark I, P2638, sporting the yellow lightning flash emblem (later changed to blue) which became 274 Squadron’s unofficial insignia at about this time.
F/Sgt Frank Henry Dean, 565551, RAF, MID, was shot down and killed on 15 May 1941, age 26, when his section of Hurricanes fought with Messerschmitt Bf 109s near Halfaya at the start of Operation Brevity.
As for No. 274 Squadron, it later upgraded to Spitfire IX Fs for air defense over England before switching to the Hawker Tempest Mk V to engage V-1s after August 1944. The squadron was disbanded in September 1945. Its motto is Supero (“I overcome”).