I heard they just found something like 30 Spitfires still in the crates buried in the desert..
End of WWII they figured (like we did after Vietnam) that it was cheaper to just dispose of them locally then bring them home..
I believe they are in GREAT shape as they were sill in the oringinal shipping packaging with oil and other preservation type wraps..
I think you may be referring to this article last week about buried fighters still crated in Burma at the end of WWII against Japan:
Buried Treasure: World War II Spitfires To Be Unearthed in Burma
I would bet you're right.. though my "in the desert" may have been a little off..
That P-40 is in excellent shape considering...
My wife and me, the P-40 is second in our affection to the P-51 for WW 2 fighters...when I was a kid, there was a privately owned P-40 home ported at a little airfield a couple of towns north.
P-38 and P-61 are tied for third.![]()
I think you may be referring to this article last week about buried fighters still crated in Burma at the end of WWII against Japan:
Buried Treasure: World War II Spitfires To Be Unearthed in Burma
I love those old war birds. Strictly from an aesthetics perspective, my favorite WWII fighters are the Spitfire, the P-40, the P-51, the BF-109, and the ME-262. For WWII bombers, I like the B-17, the B-24, the B-25, and the B-26.
had such a wide variety of gun & bombing configurations...The model I loved as a kid was the one with its nosecone packed with 20 mm/50 cal.
I thought the best dog-fights in Europe were probably between the FW 190 & the Thunderbolt (P-47)....the stories from the aces were always enthralling.
Natually when the "Black Sheep" came out,...every kid fell in love with the Cosair!