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Historic Spitfire Video


On May 9, 1944, the Spitfire (production number MJ730) was transferred to RAF Squadron 154 and given the identifier HT-W. It operated from the island of Corsica on 95 missions doing bomber escort duty for American forces over northern Italy and in support of the southern invasion of France.

It was during these operations from Corsica that production number MJ730 was filmed in color by William Wyler, famed director of the Memphis Belle documentary and later Ben Hur, for an Army movie about the use of P-47 Thunderbolts in the Italian campaign.

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