THE NEW SPITFIRE
FASTEST OF ITS TYPE IN THE WORLD
(Rec. 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY, July 12 "The fastest aircraft of its type in the world," is the description given by pilots to the Spitfire Mark XI. It has participated in some of the most outstanding photographic sorties made over enemy territory, notably photographing the breaching of the Mohne and Edei dams, and Berlin bomb damage. This Spitfire also played a prominent part in pre-invasion sorties, obtaining a vast amount of advance information about enemy movements and dispositions, which proved invaluable to our invading forces. More recently still it brought back vital pictures of flying bomb and rocket bomb sites. which have been subsequently attacked •with considerable success by British and American bombers.
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Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 5
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122THE NEW SPITFIRE Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 5
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