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• Around 1,500 Dornier 17-Z aircraft were built. • The slim fuselage of the Dornier 17 earned it the nickname ‘Flying Pencil’. • The Luftwaffe deployed around 400 of these aircraft during 1940/41. • Of these, 132 were lost during the Battle of...

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