140 Crated Spitfires buried in Burma (Myanmar)?

[Keith Webb]

When I interviewed Tony Gaze, one of our top scoring aces he told me in Germany he went into a recently liberated airfield hoping for a Fw190 and found most had the port oleo partly cut with a hacksaw.

He had better luck at the factory where he took one straight from the production line (possibly it's first flight) after swapping an earlier model so their numbers still matched. It flew badly, one wing low.