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spitfires buried in burma

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By *etanready OP   Couple
over a year ago

dover

Been following this story for some months now, i am a avid follower of anything to do with 2ww history, still cant make my mind up if this story is for real,comments please.

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By *aneman2Man
over a year ago

newcastle upon tyne

on news today about the spitfires and it's looking like it's true , they were buried in crates by the RAF , a millionairs paying for everything it says

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sounds possible. Was just on the news.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

fantastic story i heard about this a cpl of months ago .wonder how much 36 minty fresh spitfires are worth

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Probably precisely whatever Burma choses to ask for them.

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By *anfiona2Couple
over a year ago

ramsgate


"Been following this story for some months now, i am a avid follower of anything to do with 2ww history, still cant make my mind up if this story is for real,comments please."

Yeah I'm fascinated with military history too.

I believe work is due to start on a dig in january and there could possibly be up to 60 planes buried in crates that have never been assembled

What is not clear is why they were buried

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Probably precisely whatever Burma choses to ask for them."

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow


".........What is not clear is why they were buried "

Supposedly to stop the engines falling into the wrong hands.

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By *anfiona2Couple
over a year ago

ramsgate


".........What is not clear is why they were buried

Supposedly to stop the engines falling into the wrong hands."

I think by that stage of the war the Japanese were very much on the run

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By *anfiona2Couple
over a year ago

ramsgate


".........What is not clear is why they were buried

Supposedly to stop the engines falling into the wrong hands."

I think by that stage of the war the Japanese were very much on the run

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

The Guardian says

"the lost RAF planes, which are believed to have been packed in crates and hidden by British forces on the orders of Earl Mountbatten shortly before the United States bombed the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945."

That may or may not be true.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's defo real and are worth on at least £1million each depending what mark they are.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow


"It's defo real and are worth on at least £1million each depending what mark they are. "

There's talk about this on various Brylcreme forums and most question what the price would be if (somewhere between) 36 and 60 appear on the market at much the same time.

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By *anfiona2Couple
over a year ago

ramsgate


"It's defo real and are worth on at least £1million each depending what mark they are. "

I read somewhere I believe, they were Mark XIV's

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

No doubt there'll be an episode of Time Team on its way

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By *anfiona2Couple
over a year ago

ramsgate

I can't imagine they will be pristine after all that time but may be salvageable enough to build them, fingers crossed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Probably precisely whatever Burma choses to ask for them."

Or indeed Myanmar.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know of peeps in the know, and apparently it is all true.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wasn't there talk of some buried in Australia at a site where they were supposed to be scrapped shortly after the war? Wonder if it is the same tale recycled?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I vaguely remember hearing about the planes in Burma are in kit form and yet to be built.

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By *he tactile technicianMan
over a year ago

the good lands, the bad lands, the any where you may want me lands

Yeah, they had never been assembled, still crated in ckd form. I hope that the waxed paper linings and the tar sealing on the crates that the RAF used back then have protected them sufficiently. Didn't David Cameron strike a deal with them that they would retain 24 of the aircraft and we would remove the remainder? Just imagine that for a Battle of Britain flight when William ascends the throne

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By *etanready OP   Couple
over a year ago

dover

they are the mark V11 fitted with the griffon engine, probable one of the best mark spits

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20515659

Yup appears to be true.

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