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..the tanker was bombed and set on fire. It crawled along attracting a hornet's nest of Axis trouble. The fire was put out. The fire reignited. More attacks. The tanker limped home. The cheering Maltese people met it at Valletta Harbour.The Spitfires were fuelled up and a half-Maltese-half-Scottish pilot shot the monocle from the sneering Aryan face of the Luftwaffe pilot, (this is my film, don 't forget). "Gott in Himmel! ....Shpitfieur! " he screamed, as his 109 plummeted ...etc ...
The raids on the German supply ships continued, using Fortress Malta as a base. The Afrika Korps had no fuel and no ammunition, the Fox no teeth or claws. Rommell was easy meat for a resupplied Montgomery. The Maltese people say it was because of their sacrifice and only a braver man than me would question this.
The defeat in Africa led to Sicily and gave the Russians in Stalingrad reason to believe.
OK, I ACCEPT THIS BUT YOU CALLED IT THE "BEAUTIFUL" SPITFIRE.IT WAS A KILLING MACHINE.Well, my aunt was Mitchell 's secretary and had a silver model of it on her fireplace. It was beautiful. ...Mitchell ...the designer? OH AND WILL SHE BE IN YOUR FILM? Not only her, but she will be accompanied by her nephew:
"Mr Mitchell, while you and the team were at the party, I managed to build one craft out of the two crashed ones. " said the shy young man. "Well done lad. ", Said Mitchell. "I see your cockpit 's on the top. It could work. ...but we have no pilots left to test it " ... "Oh yes we have! " the young man says in a ruggedly modest voice ... ...etc.
