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    Sssh! 10% of all Spitfires in WW2 were given to and used by Soviets to fight Luftwaffe Archived Message

    Posted by Jim_Carlucci on July 11, 2022, 4:06 pm

    ..have just read it in an aficionado's book (in a local charity shop) called "Spitfire! Spitfire!" by a certain Michael Burns.

    Book gets 5-Star rating on Amazon:

    "Spitfire! Spitfire!: Burns, Michael at:

    https://www.amazon.com/Spitfire-Michael-Burns/dp/0713718323

    See here for details of Soviet use of Spitfires generously gifted to them by our heinously Commie-backing, Red Army-supporting, flag-wavingly patriotic very British forefathers:

    "Spitfire Mk.5 - on Soviet-German front"

    https://airpages.ru/eng/uk/spitll5.shtml

    Oh..Irony! Irony!

    Spitfire! Spitfire!

    Irony Curtain! Irony Curtain!

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    • Sssh! 10% of all Spitfires in WW2 were given to and used by Soviets to fight Luftwaffe - Jim_Carlucci July 11, 2022, 4:06 pm