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The factory workers who kept Britain's fighter planes in the sky

Everyone knows the Battle of Britain was fought in the skies. What’s much less well known is that it was fought in the back streets of Southampton as well.

When the Luftwaffe destroyed the factory making Spitfires in the city in 1940, Lord Beaverbrook, the Minister of Aircraft Production, decided to commandeer small industrial sites around the city to continue

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