Spitfire: The Game-Changer of WWII

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Spitfire Rough Draft Spitfire, the best fighter plane in the Battle of Britain and loved by many people. The spitfire was fast enough to take down several german planes before they could react to try and take down the spitfire. This was a great leap to germany and hitler’s downfall for WW2. Also the spitfire used to be the most popular model plane made. There are many more facts that will be in the next few paragraphs. Some early history about the spitfire is it took about two years to draw the blueprint. This blueprint was made by R J Mitchell who came up with the idea and started drawing it in 1936. R J Mitchell was a engineer at Supermarine Aviation and he built this to be faster and more effective than germans planes. The spitfire was

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