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Thread ID: 128839 2013-01-18 19:35:00 No Spitfeuer found in Burma dreamers prefect (6291) PC World Chat
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1323439 2013-01-18 19:35:00 www.dailymail.co.uk prefect (6291)
1323440 2013-01-18 20:06:00 Maybe they found them, but it's a conspiracy. ;) KarameaDave (15222)
1323441 2013-01-18 20:51:00 Bugger :( :( Zippity (58)
1323442 2013-01-19 02:13:00 They are still looking, but the chances I think of finding them is pretty slim.
:(
Trev (427)
1323443 2013-01-19 03:54:00 Surely they had some evidence as to where they were buried before they raised all that cash and got the equipment etc.

Three locations - that narrows it down.

I wish them well, but i can't help believing they will find a pile of rust on the floor of each crate.
Digby (677)
1323444 2013-01-19 20:13:00 Its just another twist on an El Dorado tale.
Think about it:
Buried 40 feet before diggers were invented.
Locals must have seen them doing it and those poor locals would dig them back up for scrap
Not for enemy action the Japs were licked
Why not just crush them with a bulldozer
The wooden crates would have rotted away and everything in would have corroded away to nothing. I saw an Avro 504 cylinder found during excavations at Wigram Airbase and it was rusted blob.
The RAF would have the burial in the Squadron paperwork down to the last detail.
Seems there was an American eye witness that's the klincher for me.
prefect (6291)
1323445 2013-01-19 21:44:00 @Prefect

That's quite a damming list.
But you are probably correct.

The Spitfire is revered in the UK (and rightly so) so there must be hundreds of people willing to put money up on such a fools errand.
Digby (677)
1323446 2013-01-19 21:52:00 @Prefect

That's quite a damming list.
But you are probably correct.


x2 :thumbs:
WalOne (4202)
1323447 2013-01-19 22:00:00 Its just another twist on an El Dorado tale.
Think about it:
Buried 40 feet before diggers were invented.
Locals must have seen them doing it and those poor locals would dig them back up for scrap
Not for enemy action the Japs were licked
Why not just crush them with a bulldozer
The wooden crates would have rotted away and everything in would have corroded away to nothing. I saw an Avro 504 cylinder found during excavations at Wigram Airbase and it was rusted blob.
The RAF would have the burial in the Squadron paperwork down to the last detail.
Seems there was an American eye witness that's the klincher for me.

That assumes the ground they were claimed to be buried in is waterlogged.

Wigram is NOT a fair comparison. The water table is very high out there.
Zippity (58)
1323448 2013-01-20 19:29:00 prefect is on to it Gobe1 (6290)
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