One A Day 2.0 Day #377 Guest Starring SDcomics - Spitfire

A "spitfire" is slang for a person, generally a woman or child, who has a fiery, passionate or quick tempered personality. It describes someone who is easily angered, highly energetic, and often speaks or acts with "fiery" intensity.

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. It was the only British fighter produced continuously throughout the war. During and after the Battle of Britain, the Spitfire became a symbol of British resistance.

And that brings us to ...

Lady Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton, aka Spitfire. She was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Frank Robbins. She first appeared as Lady Jacqueline in Invaders #7 (July, 1976) and in costume as Spitfire in Invaders #12 (December 1976). She's the daughter of the original Union Jack (James Montgomery Falsworth) and the sister of Union Jack II (Brian Falsworth) . After being bitten by Baron Blood as Lady Jacqueline, she received a blood transfusion from the android original Human Torch. That gave her superhuman speed and she rescued the Torch from the Blue Bullet. She then took the code name Spitfire and joined Captain America, Bucky Barnes, the Human Torch, Toro and the Sub-Mariner as an Invader. She operated as a special agent for the United Kingdom and Allied Forces during World War II, as well as the United Kingdom's Home Guard.

As an Invader, she went toe to toe with Warrior Woman and Master Man, she freed the Mighty Destroyer from captivity, she fought the Teutonic Knight, and helped prevent the assassination of Winston Churchill by Baron Von Strucker. The lady is no cream puff.

This is the dream:

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"Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.
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Winston Churchill,

Delivered in the House of Commons, 18 June 1940.
 
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