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Originally Posted by Graham Boak
To be fair, there does seem to be rather more behind this than some tales similar at first glance. It might be worth a look at what is being said on the Key Publishing site, by some creditable individuals.
I certainly have some doubts about the details of this story, but it does seem that there is something down there. Whether it turns out to be Spitfires is another matter, and Mk.14s yet another!
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Well, it seems as the Burma discovery may be legit.
Mind, I dinna know the reliability of BBC.Com or Telegraph.com, so I can't make a decent analysis of the story, so we'll have to wait and see how this works out....
But I dare say that - if true - the British and Burmese governments will share a good bit of cash by putting them up for auction, eh?
See below....
Jim
From Wikipedia [Disclosure: I am an editor for Wikipedia] :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitfire
"In 1945, the RAF buried a number of Mk.XIV Spitfires in Burma, still unassembled in their crates, in order to prevent them falling into enemy hands or being destroyed. Their exact location has never been determined but in April 2012 the UK government announced they were working with the post-junta Burmese government to locate and potentially return the total of 20 aircraft to flying status. Leeds University experts and an academic from Rangoon, using sophisticated radar techniques claimed to believe they discovered the site of the buried aircraft. In addition to the 20 aircraft thought to be at this one site, other sites with buried Spitfires are believed to exist. One such site is thought to have up to 36 Spitfires alone buried ¯and preserved."[153][154]
Footnote 153 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17710598
Spitfires in Burma 'could be found',
13 April 2012
"British and Burmese authorities could work together to find 20 Spitfires buried in Burma at the end of the World War II, officials say."
Footnote 154 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/de...-in-Burma.html
( http://tinyurl.com/bquuh35 )
British farmer’s quest to find lost Spitfires in Burma,
by Adam Lusher7:50AM BST 15 Apr 2012
"A Lincolnshire farmer has told how he spent 15 years trying to find a lost squadron of Spitfires that was buried in Burma at the end of the Second World War."
[article includes a photo, "Spitfire being prepared for burial in Burma" - Photo: Sean Spencer]