Guy Martin's Spitfire
Oct 12 2014
•1h 12m
•Documentary
Guy Martin joins the two-year restoration of a Spitfire that was buried in a French beach for decades, and tells the Boy's Own-style story of its pilot, Squadron Leader Geoffrey Stephenson
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Guy Martin
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