 Short Stirling N6086 <i>MacRobert&#39;s Reply</i> of 15 Sqn is shown during the bombing raid on the French Harbour of Brest on 18th December 1941.  British bombers had been dispatched to bomb the German battleships <i>Gneisenau</i> and <i>Scharnhorst</i> that were docked there, an action that earned N6086&#39;s skipper Fl Off Peter Boggis a DFC.  Stirling W7428 is also shown with her port wing ablaze, one of two Stirlings lost on this operation.  The subject of the RAF&#39;s attention can be seen amid the smoke - <i>Gneisenau</i> in drydock and <i>Sharnhorst</i> alongside. 