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| While the Western Allies struggled up the spine of Italy, the war was being won and lost on the Eastern Front after Hitler's ill-judged invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. |
| “Enemy aliens” were people who were living in Britain but who came originally from countries opposing us in the Second World War. |
| The English Electric Canberra, Britain's first jet bomber, entered RAF service in 1951. |
| The Hunter and the Javelin were replaced in RAF Fighter Command by the very high performance English Electric Lightning, the RAF's first supersonic fighter. |
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