{"id":11195,"date":"2017-03-11T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T07:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ww2-canadian-spitfire-flies-again\/"},"modified":"2017-03-11T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T07:52:01","slug":"ww2-canadian-spitfire-flies-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ww2-canadian-spitfire-flies-again\/","title":{"rendered":"WW2 Canadian Spitfire flies again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spitifre NH341 at Duxford Aerodrome, the Imperial War Museum\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/F0A7\/production\/_95070616_ima.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Aero Legends Ltd<figcaption>Image caption                                      After its first post-restoration flight from Duxford, the aeroplane will be flown from aerodromes in Northampton and Kent                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A World War Two Spitfire will fly for the first time in more than 70 years after undergoing a three-year restoration costing \u00a33m.<\/p>\n<p>The aeroplane flew 27 combat missions between June and July 1944 before it was shot down near Caen in France.<\/p>\n<p>The French Resistance helped Canadian pilot Jimmy Jeffrey return to his unit.<\/p>\n<p>Spitfire NH341 remained in France until Aero Legends Ltd bought it in 2011. Its first post-refit flight will be at the Imperial War Museum in Cambridgeshire.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AFP<figcaption>Image caption                                      Flt Lt Bruce Whiteford flew NH341 more than any other pilot. He had his wife Elizabeth&#039;s initials and name painted on the plane                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aero Legends owner Keith Perkins said he was &quot;totally unaware&quot; of the plane&#039;s history before he bought it.<\/p>\n<p>It was flown by nine pilots from the Royal Canadian Air Force&#039;s 411 (Grizzly Bear) squadron during its short service.<\/p>\n<p>Flt Lt (later Squadron Leader) H C &quot;Charlie&quot; Trainor shot down two German Messerschmitt 109s while flying NH341.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Aero Legends Ltd<figcaption>Image caption                                      The aeroplane was displayed at the Musee Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie at Bayeux in 1996 and later displayed at the Juno Beach Museum before restoration                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The aeroplane was described as &quot;better than anything else&quot; by Flying Officer Tommy Wheler, now 96, who destroyed several German mechanised transports during his 24th sortie in the Spitfire.<\/p>\n<p>It was shot down on 2 July 1944 over Normandy but WO Jeffrey managed to bail out.<\/p>\n<p>The French Resistance helped him return to his unit - having first taken him to a nearby town for a hair cut and to buy some cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Spitfire NH341 has been converted into a two-seat trainer plane as part of the \u00a33m restoration.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39220403 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Aero Legends LtdImage caption After its first post-restoration flight from Duxford, the aeroplane will be flown from aerodromes in Northampton and Kent A World War Two Spitfire will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}