Original sentence: After the Battle of Britain, Spetchley was instead used by the USAAF 8th Air Force as a place of recuperation for its pilots((fact}} – a basketball court was put up on the front lawn
Edited sentence: After the Battle of Britain, Spetchley was instead used by the USAAF 8th Air Force as a place of recuperation for its pilots – a basketball court was put up on the front lawn.During this period, an American fighter plane whose pilot was flying low in a display for his friends dramatically clipped the top of a cedar tree; happily both tree and plane survived and the somewhat shorter tree can be enjoyed today