The silver Spitfire

"During the build-up to the Allied invasion of Northern Europe, Battle of Britain hero Tom "Ginger" Neil was assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neil commandeered an abandoned Spitfire as his own personal aeroplane. Erasing any evidence of its provenance and stripping it down to bare metal, it became the RAF's only silver Spitfire. He took his plane into battle alongside his US comrades until, with the war's end, he was forced to make a difficult decision. Faced with too many questions about the rogue fighter, he contemplated increasingly…