![]() Duxford is Europe’s largest air museum and one of the largest in the world, it’s also an airfield that was used by the Allies during WWII – Spitfires originally flew out of there during the war. The IWM Duxford now has the largest collection of Spitfires under one roof on Earth. ![]() In the years since the mission of the IWM museums has been to record the history of each major conflict from WWI onwards – with WWII history now making up a fairly significant amount of their collection. The Imperial War Museum is uniquely qualified to give a run-through the history of the Spitfire, now a series of five museums in the United Kingdom, the IWM was initially founded in 1917 to record the history of the First World War – known simply as “The Great War” at the time. Spitfire Mk 1 to Mk 24 – How Spitfires Kept Getting Better is a new quarter hour long documentary from the British Imperial War Museum about one of the most famous and beloved aircraft of all time – the Supermarine Spitfire.
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