RAF_Luton on Twitter: "Fact of the Day: Due to a shortage of bullets during WW1 Spitfires were melted down at the #RAFLuton Broom Lake test facility and turned into ammunition for soldiers on the front line #AvGeek… https://t.co/oRhKIfL9zJ"

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1. Garry‏ @GarryNoNumbers 22 Oct 2020
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  Looks like the bullets were a lot larger back in the day.
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1. Barry Jones‏ @CherryBaz 22 Oct 2020
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  They should have used them to make decorative security fences.
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1. Mike Hawkes‏ @MikeHawkes7 22 Oct 2020
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  Is it also a fact (I read it somewhere online) that in WW1 Sherman tanks were melted down to aid the war effort and make railings and barbed wire for our plucky lads?
  
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1. John Woodward‏ @johnwoodward 22 Oct 2020
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  And that is why the guns used to "spit fire"
  
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1. Allan Brocklebank‏ @al_brock 22 Oct 2020
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  Would have been better to address the shortage of pots and pans.
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1. Mr Darcy‏ @MrDarcy1815 22 Oct 2020
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  I like that they printed Navy on the side so you could tell what colour it was even in a B&W photo.
  
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1. WOZ‏ @wozmcg 22 Oct 2020
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  Some confusion here; I thought that was how they waterproofed P51 Spitfires prior to embarking on HMS BreezeBlock, by dipping them into molten bathroom sealant?? I may be mistaken......
  
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1. Bungle Rye‏ @BrianKnadd 22 Oct 2020
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  Now that would be galling.
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