Sixteen WWII British Spitfires in formation recreating a historical flashback! [video]

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: One of the Spitfire’s most important contributions to Allied victory was as a photo-reconnaissance aircraft from early 1941. Superior high-altitude performance rendered it all but immune from interception, and the fuel tanks that replaced wing-mounted machine guns and ammunition bays gave it sufficient range to probe western Germany from British bases.

A formation of sixteen flying through the skies gives us a glimpse of what many saw from the ground back during wartime.