Burmese Spitfires! there are none!

[Blacksheep]

During the war they did,

Things have always disappeared off inventory. I've disappeared quite a lot of stuff myself during my my career. However, what I'm talking about is things that are "On Inventory". Any crated Spitfires being shipped to Rangoon for assembly and squadron allocation would have been firmly "On Inventory" until such time as the squadron adjutant scribbled his name at the bottom of the transaction slip. And although there is plenty of evidence of Spitfires being sent to Burma, they were previously assembled by an MU in India. There is also plenty of documentary evidence of unused crated Spitfires being shipped back from ACSEA to UK, and others being handed over to the Indian Air Force and - surprise, surprise - the Burmese Air Force. Its the lack of any evidence of any large batch of Spitfires being shipped to Rangoon that makes me sceptical about their existence.

[FATTER GATOR]

Finally given up

BBC reporting that the search is officially off.

BBC News - Search for 'buried Spitfires' in Burma called off

Shame really.

There's a well informed picture at the end of the article which gives highly detailed information as to why the Spitfire was so successful.