A total of 17 fighter planes were funded by generous readers of the newspaper during the Second World War
Watch: Belfast Telegraph Spitfire outside Stormont for VE Day
Visitors to Stormont were met with a striking sight on Tuesday afternoon as a full-scale replica of a Second World War Spitfire took pride of place to commemorate Victory in Europe.
The fighter plane was placed in front of Parliament Buildings as part of Northern Ireland’s VE Day celebrations to mark the formal end of the Second World War on May 8, 1945 which saw the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces.