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Pictured: The replica Spitfire arrives. <br />
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A full-sized model Spitfire has been built as a memorial to the women and children who constructed over 2,000 of them in secret during World War Two.<br />
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The crucial little-known operation involved just a few hundred people who operated in requisitioned car garages, sheds, workshops and factories in the city of Salisbury, Wilts.<br />
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They had to sign of Official Secrets Act and worked with such discretion that the Wiltshire city's inhabitants were oblivious to it.<br />
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They built the legendary aircraft in piecemeal, with the parts coming together to be assembled in one large factory that is now the local rugby club.