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[lakeside]

20 spitfires buried in Burma during the Second World War.




http://www.telegraph...s-in-Burma.html

[Statler]

Sssshhhhh! Don't tell cruiza.

[A9X]

Been hearing story's of a squadron of spits ( sometimes kitty's- sometimes wirraways) buried in the pilbara since I was a teen
When I was in the regs , we did some work with buried caches along the canning stock route, fuel food and 'stuff'.
Even the guys from DMO who were doing the research talked about a buried squadron
Always figured it was bs

[ReplicarSLR]

Pitty he didn't find any Hawker Typhoon's with them!!!!!

[MustardGTR]

While working in the Pilbra I also heard of the Spitfires supposedly buried in the vicinity of Corunna Downs "secret" WWII air force base. Made a few trip out there over the years which always intriguing but no signs of spitfires.
Attached link give a flavor of what was/ is out there:-


http://picasaweb.goo...236578469230450

[enderwigginau]

http://www.ozatwar.c...orunnadowns.htm

No25 only had Liberators at Corunna.....not sure if or what fighter aircraft were there.......

[enderwigginau]

Where is your metal detector Michael........and when are we building some ground penetrating radar..........

[enderwigginau]

http://wikimapia.org...15&z=14&l=0&m=b

[enderwigginau]

http://www.ww2talk.c...gal-arakan.html

[frash da bucket]

Its so good to hear old stories about old planes,like the one were they found a complete lancaster bomber,restored it and now living in england and flying on special occations,was very luck to have sat in a spitfire at a airshow 5 years ago,what a amazing plane the spitfire,and the sound of them when they are diving down at speed,the roar of the merlin.

Cheers John.

[frash da bucket]

Hi Michael,

Lovelly photo's of the planes that you have put up,thank you.
There was a doco on sbs 1 week ago,It was a special about the lancasters used to drop the spinning bomb,as you know the dam busters! Ewan Mcgregor and his brother who is a raf pilot flew the langcaster in england,they also spoke to one of the original members of 617 squadron langcaster crew,his job was to use the wooden measuring stick to line up the the dam pillars and drop the spinning bomb.19 lancasters were sent to germany to bust the dams on the 14th may 1943,Only 11 lancasters returned to base.

Cheers John.

[frash da bucket]

Hi Michael,

The lancaster was found in the ocean about 3 miles before the cliffs of dover,the pilot was tring to get the plane back to base on one engine,not enough power to get over the cliffs,so was diched in water.The plane was in the battle of brittan.Every one surrvived on the plane,they all got out before it sank.It sat in the water for 50 years,was removed all intack,and brought back to dry land and cleaned up and restored,and now flying again.The original pilot was still allive at the time,he heard that guys were looking for old planes in england,so he told them about the lancaster he ditched in the sea all of those years ago.

Cheers John.

[A9X]

lord of the rings jackson ?

[frash da bucket]

It was removed and lifed from the water in 1993,and placed on a barge,and moved to dry land,i watched the doco on the abc,late 1993.I have lots of aircraft history,from before and after ww2 that my grandfather got lots of books,and a old one i found 2 weeks ago called,Target Germany 1944,its a magazine ; The U.S army air forces' official story of the V111 bomber comand's first year over Europe.
Its amazing read of stories of plane with battle damage,from the german 20mm,shell peeled the metal covering off this bomber like the skin on a onion,Its one off the photo's in the magazine.I also have shell and casing from a spitfire,dated 1942,K2 20mm,one of my grandfathers war buddy's gave to him for a present during ww2.,its been defused its safe.

Cheers John.