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Salisbury Plain Spitfire

Wounded servicemen and women excavated the remants of the fighter plane from 609 Squadron which was shot down by enemy fire on October 27th 1940

Media Links for the Spitfire Excavation Project

http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/news/?tag=archaeology

http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/5131-bomb-disposal-sqn-assists-in-recovery-of-wwii-spitfire-13102015

https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/2014/08/29/operation-nightingale-the-eagle-has-landed/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11922928/Raising-the-ghosts-of-the-Second-World-War.html

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