I believe, that somewhere buried deep under YBCV, are many Mustangs and god know's what else. All left there when the American's packed up and went home at the end of World War II.
185, Beechy, you guys would know something about these wouldn't you?
morno
Tales like that abound. There is supposedly a field in the NT that 40+ spitfires were flown into, pushed into a hole and buried. Similar for other military equipment from the time. My great grandfather, who lived long enough to tell me some tales, served in the RAN ww1, and merchant navy ww2. His story that on VJ day his ship tossed some 400 tonne of cargo over the side. He was mid pacific, San Francisco to Brisbane with military cargo. Any crate with the Lend Lease handshake painted on the side went overboard.....lost in transit, we wouldn't have to pay for it. I grew up as a member of the VMVC, and stories similar abound. I've seen the results of crates 'recovered' from the deep, seen vehicles getting blasted and the handshake is uncovered and worked around, then cleared over to preserve the 'original element'.