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Spitfire Compass

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Genevieve
Location of story: 
Pontesbury, Shropshire
Background to story: 
Civilian
Article ID: 
A7609629
Contributed on: 
07 December 2005

Spitfire Compass

This is the compass from a Spitfire that crashed in Pontesbury during the Second World War.

Type P.8
No. 116129D

I, Becky Barugh (of the BBC Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk) have added this photograph to the BBC People's War site on my own behalf. I fully understand the site's terms and conditions.

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