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A series of four wartime photos, reminder that service Spitfires were not the polished, immaculate examples we see today.

18 March 1945. First flight of the Douglas A-1 XBT2D-1 Skyraider, American single-seat attack aircraft.

11 March 1932. First flight of the Latécoère 50.0, French 3 engine parasol winged flying boat prototype built for the transatlantic mail route to South America. Powered by three Hispano-Suiza 12Jb, 400 hp engines.

24 December 1952. First flight of the Handley Page HP 80 Victor, British V-Bomber aircraft.

18 December 1936. First flight of the Mitsubishi Ki-21 'Sally', Japanese twin engine bomber.

22 November 1916. 'Captain John Andrews’ by Mark Postlethwaite. DH2 and Albatros.

TBF Avenger torpedo bomber in flight, mid-1942

Two Spitfire IXs were fitted with Mustang drop tanks in the US.

23 September 1916. Leutnant d. RMl Fritz Hammer in KDW prototype versus Ilya Muromets - By Steve Anderson.

Blackburn Kangaroo of 246 Squadron RAF flown by Lieutenant E. F. Waring bombed German submarine, SM UC-70, near Runswick Bay, Yorkshire on 28 August 1918.