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Pol Allingham

Second World War veterans with combined age of 300 take off in Spitfires

Second World War veteran Ivan Staines, 99, with his great-grandson Alfie Rose, five (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Wire)

Second World War veterans with a combined aged of 300 years have taken off in Spitfire planes above Kent.

Family and fellow veterans watched as the three ex-servicemen from the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, the South Staffordshire Regiment and the Highland Light Infantry boarded their flights from Biggin Hill on Thursday morning.

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