Burma hunt for WWII German Spitfires covered by AlJazeera

[lifes-been-good]

Burma hunt for WWII British Spitfires covered by AlJazeera

Apparently US forces buried crates of unassembled Spitfires at the end of the war. I've heard of this story before, but AJ did a nice job of summing up the facts in 2 minutes.

 

[maipenrai]

They are British spitfires, and wasnt it the British that supposedly buried them, not the Americans?

 

[DocBeav]

Yes. British not Americans.

 

[Smithbrown]

Not looking good for the spitfire search anymore:

Some of our Spitfires are missing: Doubts over existence of 160 WW2 fighter planes in Burma - Asia - World - The Independent

and
Spitfire hunter pledges the search will go on - Telegraph

 

[maipenrai]

That sounds like another dreamers story, right here on TN. Just substitute spitfires for gold, and move the scene to Fla, digging holes with no research.

 

[Smithbrown]

And getting other people to pick up the bills, too!

 

[amberg]

NPR also covered this one.

In Myanmar, A Hunt For Fabled Cache Of Buried WWII Spitfires : NPR

 

[tlowery04]

I'm still waiting to find my ww2 jeep in a crate