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Penny Spitfires

My mother kept a glass dish on her dressing table. It contained, among other thinks, a small metal plane. Mother said it was given to her by a Polish airman who made it. While waiting to go into action the men would model these Spitfires from copper pennies.

Location: Skegness
Submitted by Bunty

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