RAFMT Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 It'll have to wait till I get home, but I have a series of photographs from the RAF Museum showing a crated spitfire being towed through Gibraltar by a WOT3 based Tructor. Let's just say that 1- there is nothing to show that it is a Spitfire from anything other than a few feet away where you can read the shipping markings. 2- It's HUGE, and a 100 odd of them would be, firstly, easily noticed by all the RAF servicemen on site who have so far failed to corroborate the story and secondly bloody hard to neatly bury. And if we go from "they were brand new in the box aircraft neatly buried" to "assembled aircraft on the station declared surplus to requirements" then there is something else to bear in mind. They didn't dig a hole with a nice sloping ramp and wheel the aircraft in. They dug a pit, got preferably a bulldozer but any suitable large vehicle would do, and just pushed it in, oblivious to the crunching, screeching noises coming from what was the aircraft. If it wasn't needed then it didn't have to kept in anywhere near a good condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 It isn't over yet....... The sponsors have legged it but... http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/hunt-for-spitfires-not-over-yet-says-cundall.html How much pressure is that guy under??!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 A talk of no doubt interest will be taking place this evening in London about this project. Perhaps one for more local members to attend: http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/whats-going-on/events/printing-the-legend/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAFMT Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 The talk will apparently be going on the wargaming.net youtube channel sometime very soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 The talk will apparently be going on the wargaming.net youtube channel sometime very soon. Excellent, will keep an eye out for that. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxy Posted January 2, 2014 Author Share Posted January 2, 2014 http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/search-burma-spitfire-go-2014-4864356 LoL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Prompted by the recent Nazi Gold Train saga, I downloaded a copy of "Assumed Missing, Reported Buried", the formal technical report on the 2013 Burma Spitfire excavations. Well worth reading and it does a thorough debunking of the buried Spitfires myth. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedawnpatrol Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Andy where did you get that from ? i'd like to read that. Jules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Andy where did you get that from ? i'd like to read that. Jules From Scribd via Google if I recall correctly. It took a bit of a hunt, shame they don't make it more easily available. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Andy where did you get that from ? i'd like to read that. Jules I have not had a chance to read it yet, but here is the link; https://www.scribd.com/doc/260010985/Assumed-Missing-Reported-Buried-as-Published-23-March-2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxy Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 UPDATE , read from page1 to 7 inc. Then buy the BOOK of non-history ! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0750993855/ref=sspa_dk_detail_4?psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyNE1CVTZKM0VIU1E4JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMzgyNDYzMktLVkEzUkpDTk9QRyZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwOTAxNTA0M1NGUFc3T04xWTk4UCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2RldGFpbCZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T8Hants Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Just as an aside, I was watching a TV documentary about the retreat out of Burma in front of the Japanese advance, in which a gunner said they were forced to bury their guns as there was no boats available to carry them across the Irrawaddy (I think it was). So I wonder if enterprising scrap dealers have ever found them, or did they just bury the breech-blocks, which seems more likely. Or perhaps they were retrieved during the subsequent re-capture, who knows, but burying large objects during a retreat seems to me to take too much time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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