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Home Forums Historic Aviation While looking up some stuff for the Spitfire query at Brize I came across this Reply To: While looking up some stuff for the Spitfire query at Brize I came across this

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Steve Bond
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During research for the book, I interviewed several locals who were there at the time of the mass scrapping, which followed severe storm damage to the aircraft in early 1947. It became clear from our discussions that nothing of any significant size survived to be buried. Yes, there at well be some interesting bits and pieces down there somewhere, but the on-airfield site is covered in later dumped material as I mentioned and the precise location of the suggested off-airfield site near Brize Norton village could not be confirmed with any confidence.