Burmese Spitfires, they've found a crate.
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Haraka, I reckon those aircraft would have a far better chance of survival than the Burma Spitfires.
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Not sure we've got any of those preserved have we?
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BURMA UPDATE: Hunt for lost Spitfires ‘buried in crates’ continues as JCBs dig trenches around Burmese airport. | Forces-War-Records
Well you would have thought they would have kept the old boy on to see them raised instead of shipping him off "Surplus to Requirements"
Witness: Stanley Coombe (right), a 91-year-old former British soldier who is one of eight people who said they had seen buried British Spitfires in Burma, has reportedly returned home
Return: Mr Coombe, from Eastbourne is reported to have been sent home for being ‘surplus to requirements’ just before the British led team started digging for the crates
Well you would have thought they would have kept the old boy on to see them raised instead of shipping him off "Surplus to Requirements"
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BBC reporting that archaeologists no longer believe there are any Spitfires.
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Australian finds 5.5Kg gold nugget:
BBC News - Australian amateur prospector finds massive gold nugget
Maybe they should have dug in Australia
BBC News - Australian amateur prospector finds massive gold nugget
Maybe they should have dug in Australia
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Well their is that much Gold and Gold nuggets left
in the ground but within metal detector range it will
keep being found for years
People make a living out of it !
So you are probably right !!!
in the ground but within metal detector range it will
keep being found for years
People make a living out of it !
So you are probably right !!!
Tabs please !
Not so much Spitfires, more like Zeros.
Well some consolation from the project, Burma motorists will enjoy following a couple of JCB diggers at 7:30am on the roads each day now. This is globalisation...
PS: The Spitfires may rust in peace now...
PS: The Spitfires may rust in peace now...
Have a dig around Edzell, in Scotland. That was the Halifax and Stirling disposal unit after the war. My father used to ferry brand new Hailfaxs from the factory to there to be scrapped.
Stirlings
Just a parting shot on the Kasfareet Stirling saga.
Haraka senior witnessed their burial around 1947 at the latest ( he was back at St. Eval in 1948) . Others have confirmed on the internet that some 7 or so Stirlings were there around that time, and also certainly were out of sight and mind by 1951.
The RAF Museum did ask for a survey from the Egyptians in 1986 apparently ( some 40 years after the event) . I don't know anything about any results of this enquiry.
Haraka senior witnessed their burial around 1947 at the latest ( he was back at St. Eval in 1948) . Others have confirmed on the internet that some 7 or so Stirlings were there around that time, and also certainly were out of sight and mind by 1951.
The RAF Museum did ask for a survey from the Egyptians in 1986 apparently ( some 40 years after the event) . I don't know anything about any results of this enquiry.