Up to 60 Spitfire fighters found buried in Asia

[Steve Cooke]

my uncle used to work on spits and hurricanes during the war ,im sure he has been following the latest news

My mates dad and his team where responsible for arming the Hurricanes with rockets later in the war, his scrapbook is amazing.
I also had a girlfriend years ago who's dad was once telling me about when he got shot down by an ME109 over Dorset, I was taking it with a pinch of salt until he opened his shirt and showed me his left side and shoulder which had been riddled with 20mm cannon shells. Utmost respect for them fellas on both sides.

[Z1B]

Did they ever find the Spitfires

[gordon62]

unfortunetly not....

[ADRIAN H]

Unfortunately nothing found yet, just a wooden box - full of wooden panels and fence posts

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/worl ... onsor.html

[zed1015]

My grandad worked at Lindholme airfield and during the fifties when the yanks cleared off all the american owned equipment had to go too.
It was not cost effective to fly it all back to the US so under the cover of darkness and armed guards they dug an enormouse hole and buried the lot.
Complete Jeeps, engines, tools, weapons, etc etc all crated up and buried.
My grandad was one of the guards and was sworn to secrecy.
He used to tell me the story when i was a kid and later told me the general location which at the time was only a mile away from where he lived at Hatfield woodhouse.
As far as i know all that stuff is still there under what now is a farmers field with taties growing above it .

[HARRY4448]

Allegedly,
there is a considerable amount of American "stuff" in a field in Newbury.
I don't think it can be got at because horses gallop around it a lot and it wouldn't be the done thing.





I'm sure Newbury racecourse will need the cash,






one day.

[Hobbo]

Fancy calling an aircraft dong