SPITFIRE KIDS

Despite the many films and television programmes since the end of the Second World War that portray our allied heroes as grown-up men and women, the Battle of Britain was in the mainly fought and won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was twenty years old and many who designed and built their planes were even younger. This isn't a story of stiff-upper lips, stoical moustaches and aerial heroics; it's a story of young people tested to the very limits of their endurance.