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Re: Buried Spitfire's.......'ere we go again!

Posted by Paul McMillan on Wed Sep 05, 2001 04:54:45 AM

In reply top Re: Buried Spitfire's.......'ere we go again! posted by Dave on Wed Sep 05, 2001 04:40:23 AM

I thought I would get in with a google search before Tony who never sleeps..

From RAFCAA NEWS 2001

see: http://www.klif.demon.co.uk/rafcaa/news01.htm

May 2001
CRATED SPITFIRES
On the 11th May The Times had a report that there were possibly 12 crated Spitfires mk XIV buried at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon in Myanmar [Burma].
Documents, and US Army witnesses confirm the story.
Lincolnshire farmer, David Cundall, aged 51, is trying to get permission to find and recover them.

For The Times article see:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-200378,00.html

Also see: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/media/reporter/467/news.htm

where Head of Earth Sciences Dr Roger Clark is helping!

For Yorkshire post article see:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/scripts/editorial2.cgi?cid=4&aid=367772

Paul Millan

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