Spitfires buried in Burma; any news ?

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Spitfires buried in Burma; any news ?

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Its all gone very quiet since the announcement. Please don't tell me it was just crates of NAAFI tea. :worried:

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IIRC it briefly re-appeared in the press a week or two ago. It wasn't really news, just another few sound bytes to drum up interest again, how there may be more, etc etc...
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Any idea which airfield they're at?

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It's starting to look like the resurrection of an urban myth. It seems that there's a similar, older, story about a load of Spitfires buried in Queensland :doh:

Hopefully that's a co-incidence but I wouldn't invest your pension in a Spitfire recovery Company just yet!

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speedbird591 wrote:It's starting to look like the resurrection of an urban myth. It seems that there's a similar, older, story about a load of Spitfires buried in Queensland :doh:
Wrong again! My cynicism was thankfully without foundation! :lol:

It looks like they really are there and could be coming home soon. Up to 60 of them! Fantastic!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/worl ... Burma.html

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