1. She also escorted aircraft carriers carrying Supermarine Spitfires.

2. Synonyms for Bacchantes include maenads, fury, shrews, viragos, termagants, vixens, hags, harridans, spitfires and harpies

3. USS Wasp and HMS Eagle deliver a second contingent of Spitfires to Malta in Operation Bowery.

4. One of my newspaper database searches turned up Jerry Tonelli, star player of the Toronto Spitfires, a wheelchair basketball team.