Replica Spitfire turns heads in London
02 June, 2019
Commuters at a London station got up close and personal with a World War II icon on Friday, when a replica Supermarine Spitfire went on display on the concourse.
The full-scale copy of the plane widely credited with winning the Battle of Britain in 1940, on loan from the Imperial War Museums, will remain at London Bridge station for 10 days.
The display is part of celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, when the Spitfire provided air support to Allied troops over Normandy in a fighter-bomber role.
“It’s one of the few things that the British were using from the very beginning of the war to the very end of the war, so it’s truly representative of the gamut of the conflict,” John Delaney, the Imperial War Museums’ curator for World War II, told Reuters.
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