A SPITFIRE has flown across the county for VE Day.
People waved Union Jacks from their gardens as the SM520 aeroplane flew over the coast amid the 75th anniversary of the end of victory in Europe celebrations.
The aeroplane took off from Boultbee Flight Academy in Goodwood, near Chichester, before flying over a number of locations, inducing the home of wartime sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn in Ditchling.
The plane then made its way across the coast at about 1pm this afternoon, passing over locations selected by a national newspaper’s readers.
They included Blind Veterans UK in Greenways, Ovingdean, Care for Veterans in Worthing and the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.
D-Day veteran Len Gibbon, 96, cheered as the plane was spotted in the sky over Worthing.
We want to know what you are doing for VE Day, send us your pictures by emailing jody.doherty-cove@theargus.co.uk.
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