Spitfires found in mint conition

I read somewhere that the "British Donald Trump" was involved in the Spitfire hunt. I'm not sure who that gentleman is exactly, but such a link lends this enterprise almost as much legitimacy as if the actual Donald Trump were involved; or any of his ex-wives, girlfriends, acquaintances, gardeners, hair care consultants or Pedro, the guy that hoses the vomit and discarded panties out of the back of his limousine.

As for the Great P-47 hunt, I'm kind of losing interest now that the focus has shifted from French Polynesia to New Guinea. Though both locations feature topless women and beaches, the women in Tahiti are much less likely to produce a blowgun and shoot you in the neck with a poisonous dart.

 

Actually there is rich a Saoudi investor too.

 

it's bean Laden

 

Or perhaps a revival of the Black Adder series?

 

This team claim to have solved the mystery-
"The Wargaming team now believes, based on clear documentary evidence, as well as the evidence from the fieldwork, that no Spitfires were delivered in crates and buried at RAF Mingaladon during 1945 and 1946.
Most significantly, the archival records show that the RAF unit that handled shipments through Rangoon docks – 41 Embarkation Unit – only received 37 aircraft in total from three transport ships between 1945 and 1946. None of the crates contained Spitfires and most appear to have been re-exported in the Autumn of 1946."
Archaeology News : Spitfires in Burma Mystery Solved? | Heritage Daily - Latest Archaeology News and Archaeological Press Releases : Archaeology Press Releases

 

Good to see there is finally some serious input here and that we are back at square one (which means there is nada)

 

Oh, Gordon. Now you've gone and taken all the fun out of this thread.

 

It was the Lasagne au Cheval I had for lunch that did it!

 

Wait there's more!

KTK

 

Going back to the start of this thread, and the fact that if something's reported in the media it must be true, looks like namvet's going to have to be very patient..

 

I can't believe this is still going...
"Having spent 15 years travelling between Britain and Burma, Cundall remains hopeful of finding Spitfires. He said the project had ample resources to continue, with two further sites – at Rangoon and the Kachin State capital, Myitkyina, where a mystery crate was found last month – on his radar.
“I’m saying that there are Spitfires,” he insisted.
“I told Wargaming it will be another month or five weeks before we actually dig up a spitifire.
“But they couldn’t wait that long and they are out of the project.”
Defiance and debate greeted the announcements on the Facebook page dedicated to the investigation.
“Until David throws in the towel I won’t stop believing,” pledged one supporter.
“I still have faith in his years of research.”"
Search for Burma Spitfires continues after excavation furthers World War II mystery | Culture24

 

Well, then....good luck with that.

:eatpopcorn:

 

It is an unfortunate case of being bull headed and clearly illustrates the problem with oral evidence of any kind. You have to be careful with it and try and corroborate it with archival sources. I have to agree with Biak that this appears to have a been a huge waste of money, thankfully not tax payers. Given that it is supposedly 160 Spitfires then there would have been any number of sources to corroborate it from production lists, shipping manifests, operation records books for the airfields to which they were being delivered plus the squadrons that were due to receive them. We often think of the Second World War in terms of combat but we have to remember that it, and the First World War, created the bureaucracy that we live with today. The shipment of such a large number of pieces of expensive military hardware would have been recorded.

Ross

 

Pity David Cameron never reads ww2 forums....He might learn something.
He got a lot of run from his visit a few months ago.

A Downing Street spokesperson said: "We are pleased to hear that contracts have been awarded, which mean that the digging up of the Spitfires in Burma can begin. We've always said that we want to see these Spitfires back home in Britain – perhaps one day even flying over the skies of Britain – and today's news brings us another step closer to that."