140 Crated Spitfires buried in Burma (Myanmar)?

[Mrs Vampire]

http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/nat...-was-born.html

[Little Jo]

Hi Guys

Oh well, back to the old drawing board. On another note, at least the skeleton found buried under a council car park in Northern England at has been positively identified by DNA that the bones found were those of missing King Richard III of England.
Cheers

Tony

[Mrs Vampire]

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/...servation.aspx

[Roddy de Normann]

Would anyone be interested in details on wartime stores dumped down mineshafts in the Midlands ?

Roddy

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Roddy1011

Would anyone be interested in details on wartime stores dumped down mineshafts in the Midlands ?

Roddy

Absolutely, go for it!

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Roddy1011

Would anyone be interested in details on wartime stores dumped down mineshafts in the Midlands ?

Roddy

Hi Roddy

Go for it mate, just love those stories of what us restores like to cry over.

Cheers

Tony

[jack neville]

What about the tunnels around Sydney full of WW2 equipment or a more local one about the mineshafts in the Grampiams in Victoria full of Harley Davidsons?

Will they ever end...then there's Benitos Treasure at Queenscliff....

[Keith Webb]

Shock! Horror!
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NO BURIED SPITFIRES IN MYANMAR
THE sponsor of a British-led team hunting for dozens of rare World War II Spitfires said to have been buried in Myanmar has abandoned the search, saying stories of the stashed planes are merely "legend".
Rumours that dozens of the iconic single-seat aircraft were buried in 1945 by Britain, the former colonial power in what was then Burma, had excited military history enthusiasts, but surveys at Yangon airport in the Mingaladon district have failed to bear fruit.
The project backer, online game company Wargaming, said the team "now believes, based on clear documentary evidence, as well as the evidence from the fieldwork, that no Spitfires were delivered in crates and buried at RAF Mingaladon during 1945 and 1946".
Lead archaeologist Andy Brockman said the investigation into the stories of buried Spitfires was undertaken in the spirit of US television forensic police series "CSI" (Crime Scene Investigation).
"We followed the clues in the documents, period maps, pictures and air photographs; we talked to surviving witnesses, and visited the 'crime scene' in order to turn our study in the archives into facts on the ground," he said.
"As a result we believe that the legend of the buried Spitfires of Burma is just that: a captivating legend about a beautiful and iconic aircraft."
In a statement released late on Friday, Wargaming said the search for Spitfires in Myanmar was rooted in persistent rumours that began among servicemen in "the bars and canteens of South East Asia" as early as 1946.
It added that no surviving witnesses had actually seen planes being buried and that its research in British archives had failed to produce any evidence of the arrival of the aircraft in Myanmar in the latter months of the war.
But a local businessman involved in the project, Htoo Htoo Zaw, on Saturday vowed to continue the planned digs in the northern city of Myitkyina and Yangon airport, signalling a split within the team.
"We haven't started any digging yet. So how can we say for sure whether there are Spitfires or not?" he told AFP.
It was unclear to what extent the excavations would continue and project leader David Cundall -- a farmer and aircraft enthusiast who has spent around 17 years chasing the Spitfires -- was not immediately reachable for comment.


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