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The First of the Few (Spitfire)
In 1920s, R.J. Mitchell is known as a famous aircraft designer. But a holiday in he persuaded Hitler that it is vital to create a perfectly new type of plane which had huge impacts on Britain
















1 February 1917, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

27 December 1890, Market Giffard, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England, UK

27 September 1907, Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK

4 June 1892, London, England, UK

11 July 1884, London, England, UK


30 November 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK

16 March 1880, Penwortham, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK

13 February 1899, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England, UK

16 March 1925, England, UK

21 August 1900, London, England, UK

27 July 1917, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

21 September 1906, London, England, UK

7 November 1912, Berlin,


26 June 1889, Dublin, Ireland

January 24, 1919 in Heidelberg,

1891

3 April 1893, Forest Hill, London, England, UK

2 January 1904, Hamburg,

1 August 1918, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK

26 March 1892, Trani, Puglia, Italy

14 July 1898, Balcombe, Sussex, England, UK

20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

19 July 1884, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK



January 31, 2018
This film is brilliantly conceived, superbly produced and directed, and has some of the finest lighting and photography yet seen in British films.