WW2 USAAF bombers buried at Andrewsfield, Essex?
A relative of mine who used to fly from Andrewsfield/Great Saling in Essex, heard a rumour that many USAAF airframes and engines were buried on the airfield at the end of the Second World War.
It was claimed that rather than waste time and money shipping redundant B26s back to the States they were trundled into huge trenches dug by earthmovers and simply covered up.
My uncle, who was an engineering buff and a collector of wartime memorabilia (as a teenager he nicked a .50 cannon from the wartime wreckage of a Mustang which crashed in Essex after the pilot baled out) tried to investigate the claims about buried aircraft and often flew circuits around Andrewsfield looking for signs of such sites.
Are they any ex-USAAF guys out there who know anything about these rumours? And did this sort of thing go on at other ex RAF and USAAF bases in 1945/6?