Apr 172012
Awesome, if true:
Spitfires buried in Burma during war to be returned to UK
… in July 1945, officials fearing a Japanese occupation abandoned them on the orders of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the head of South East Asia Command, two weeks before the atom bombs were dropped, ending the conflict.
“They were just buried there in transport crates,” Mr Cundall said. “They were waxed, wrapped in greased paper and their joints tarred. They will be in near perfect condition.”
Giggity. Now, if only the same could be said of a six-pack of B-29s…