War Museum Athens

This guide to War Museum Athens centers on a single Spitfire that landed at Tatoi air base on December 8, 1953 and stood grounded in the museum's courtyard for decades afterward. It traces the aircraft's earlier life: built in 1943 in England, flown in combat over France, Italy and Austria with the RAF's 43rd Squadron, then gifted to Greece in 1947 by pilot George Dunn to help rebuild the country's air force. Along the way it covers the museum's broader collection, spanning three thousand years of Greek warfare from spears to cannons.