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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