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oojason
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[fill in the blank] Just Died!
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20-Jul-2018, 1:56 PM

The youngest Spitfire pilot to fly in the Battle of Britain during World War Two has died, it has been announced.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-44895703

Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Wellum, who was just 18 when he joined the RAF in August 1939, died at his home in Cornwall on Wednesday evening aged 96.