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Eighty years on, the sprightly 100-year-old — who now teaches yoga and celebrated her milestone birthday with a flight in a Spitfire fighter plane — is among an ever-shrinking number of veterans with ...
RAF fighter The flypast, which will feature a Spitfire from the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and is scheduled for just after noon, has become a popular fixture in the county show, which ...
RAF fighter The flypast, which will feature a Spitfire from the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and is scheduled for just after noon, has become a popular fixture in the county show ...
Visitors to Stormont were met with a striking sight on Tuesday afternoon as a full-scale replica of a Second World War Spitfire took pride of place to commemorate Victory in Europe. The fighter ...
The most obvious way was through a Spitfire Fund. The cost of a plane to bear the name Darlington was £5,000 – about £240,000 today. Workers at various companies began giving up a few pennies ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A full-size Spitfire will be on display in Southampton city centre this month. The aircraft will be part of the celebrations for the 80th ...
All therefore became adept at doing the most with the least, and it was in this spirit that the Triumph Spitfire was born at the beginning of the 1960s. Forty-five years after the last Spitfires were ...
The first of four days of celebrations began today, May 5, in London. When Big Ben struck noon, Timothy Spall recited extracts from Winston Churchill’s VE Day speech before Alan Kennett, 100 ...
A Lancaster Bomber flanked by two Spitfires led the flyover, before the Red Arrows spread their iconic red, white and blue marks across the London skies. King Charles and Queen Camilla could be ...
A historic Supermarine Spitfire from World War II made an emergency landing in a field near Kent, United Kingdom, after losing power. This incident occurred just ahead of the 80th anniversary ...
A rare Second World War-era Spitfire was forced to crash-land in a field in West Hythe on Saturday evening, just hours before VE Day commemorations were set to begin across the UK. The vintage ...
Stunning footage captured the military flypast that formed part of the first VE Day 80 commemorations. A Lancaster Bomber flanked by two Spitfires led the flyover, before the Red Arrows spread ...