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Added in February 2012
2012-02-01
“In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; ...
Added in January 2012
2012-01-18
In the lighter moments of World War II, the Spitfire was used in an unorthodox role: bringing beer kegs to the men in Normandy.
Added during 2011
2011-12-23
In October 2011, a group of amateur aviation historians have unearthed the wreckage of a Spitfire in Northern France near the village of Hardifort. Its discovery was accidental: a film crew making a World War Two documentary was excavating what they believed was the wreckage of a downed Czech aircraft when they realised that they came across a different crash site...
2011-12-14
One of the most attractive Spitfire restoration projects will be put to an the auction at Brooklands in February 2012.
2011-03-30
Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) – B.88 near the town of Heesch, in Noord-Brabant, the southern part of Holland, was the 88th airfield on the ...
2011-03-23
Here is one of those wartime photographs which at first glance raise more questions than answers. What we have here is a very anonymous photo-reconnaissance Spitfire, unidentified machine of an unidentified unit...
2011-03-07
Last weekend marked the 75th Anniversary of the Spitfire. On 5 March 1936, the yet unnamed prototype of Mitchell’s elegant new fighter took off ...
2011-01-28
An entirely new Spitfire squadron is to be formed in Enstone, Oxfordshire...
Added during 2010
2010-06-10
Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa, was followed by the Battle of Bone, a fierce aerial conflict which curiously remains one of the lesser known aerial battles of World War II.
2010-04-30
Contemporary public reactions to the spectacle of the Battle of Britain - traced by Brett Holman.
