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2013-01-18

'There are no Spitfires': The dream has ended in the hunt for buried British planes

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5:28am, Fri 18 Jan 2013
- last updated Fri 18 Jan 2013
Spitfire seen at RAF Thruxton
Spitfire seen at RAF Thruxton Photo: Reuters
"There are no Spitfires," a member of the team looking for Spitfires rumoured to be buried in Rangoon told me today.
Expert conflict archaeologists flew out to Burma for a ten day mission this month to find the Spitfires which were supposed to have been buried, in crates, at the end of the Second World War.

see the article at
More here : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264361/No-Spitfires-buried-Burma-decades-long-hunt.html
Here : http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/425486/20130118/spitfires-myanmar-burma-dig.htm

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