Royal Air Force No 260 Squadron Pennant, fine and unusual triangular pennant with painted emblem and colours of the squadron. Measures 50 x 31cms. Accompanied by two black and white official photographs of Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk’s. he squadron originally formed at the end of WW1 as an anti-submarine unit. They disbanded in 1919 and was then reformed on 22nd November 1940 at RAF Castletown, Scotland and operated Hawker Hurricanes. It then moved to Egypt and operated Curtiss Kittyhawk fighter bombers over the western desert. The squadron then advanced with the Eighth Army into Tunisia. With the North African Campaign over it then moved to Sicily following Operation Husky. As the allied forces advanced into Italy it converted to the North American P-51 Mustang and it disbanded at Lavariano on 19 August 1945.