{"id":148079,"date":"2021-12-23T01:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=148079"},"modified":"2021-12-23T01:05:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:05:37","slug":"iconic-second-world-war-spitfires-take-centre-stage-at-new-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/iconic-second-world-war-spitfires-take-centre-stage-at-new-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Second World War Spitfires take centre stage at new exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
ONE of the earliest Spitfires takes centre stage in a celebration of the plane that helped save Britain from a Nazi invasion.<\/p>\n
The Supermarine is one of 12 of the iconic Battle of Britain aircraft on show together for the first time at the Evolution of an Icon exhibition.<\/p>\n
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The Battle of Britain was a major air campaign fought in the skies\u00a0over the UK in 1940 and was the first battle in history fought entirely in the air.<\/p>\n
Around 1,120 Luftwaffe aircraft were sent to attack London.<\/p>\n
But they were stopped by 630 RAF fighters, forcing Hitler to postpone his plans to\u00a0invade Britain.<\/p>\n
The airmen became known as "The Few" following a tribute by then prime minister Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n
He said: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."<\/p>\n
The Supermarine was first built in 1938.<\/p>\n
It will open to the public from December 27 at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambs.<\/p>\n
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