Dozens Of Spitfires To Be Unearthed And Brought Back To Britain

Restored Spitfires are in short supply and the Burma/UK project is expected to largely increase their population. Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

Dozens Of Spitfire Planes To Be Excavated In Burma -- The Guardian

Agreement to dig up historic aircraft was signed by the Burmese government and an aviation enthusiast from Lincolnshire.

Dozens of Spitfire fighter planes that were buried by British troops in Burma as the second world war drew to a close are to be excavated after an agreement to dig up the historic aircraft was signed by the Burmese government and an aviation enthusiast from Lincolnshire.

After 16 years of searching and lobbying, David Cundall, 62, has signed a deal to recover the lost RAF planes, which are believed to have been packed in crates and hidden by British forces on the orders of Earl Mountbatten shortly before the United States bombed the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

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