By: Sopwith - 14th October 2012 at 18:10
Yes I saw that CeBro,wonder if there is any substance in the story?
By: CeBro - 12th October 2012 at 12:42
While waiting for news on the Burmese Spits, over on WIX two Spits seem to
be under investigation in Australia. Any news Mark?
Cees
By: ...starfire - 12th October 2012 at 10:48
Well, those three submarines had never really been “lost”. They could be seen at low tide inside the remains of the bunker (Elbe 2) they were/are resting in. Finally during redevelopment work of the harbour in the 1990s that submarine bunker was filled with sand and than flattened with explosives. Nowadays there is a container park above the area. BTW: Remains of pocket battle ship Admiral Scheer and of WWI monitor HMS Glatton suffered a same fate, their wrecks beeing buried in Kiel and Dover harbour respectively during landfill work.
Sorry if I have been drifting off topic too much …
By: Al - 11th October 2012 at 22:10
Stranger things have happened – in 1985 some U-Boat enthusiasts found three of the revolutionary type XXI U-Boats (U-2505, U-3004, and U-3506) almost intact in a demolished bunker (Elbe II) in Hamburg, and apart from vandalism since then, they are still there!
By: Arabella-Cox - 11th October 2012 at 21:14
I didn’t suggest which Christmas!
By: Mark12 - 11th October 2012 at 21:00
Will that be; ‘all-over’ by Christmas?
Unlikely.
By: Arabella-Cox - 11th October 2012 at 20:52
Will that be; ‘all-over’ by Christmas?
By: Mark12 - 10th October 2012 at 15:11
I feel sure that as soon as people can talk about it, it’ll be all over the web!
Correct.
By: Oxcart - 10th October 2012 at 14:45
I feel sure that as soon as people can talk about it, it’ll be all over the web!
By: Stepwilk - 10th October 2012 at 14:45
Because the whole thing was quite obviously–at least to some–beuhlchit right from the beginning.
By: charliehunt - 10th October 2012 at 14:32
Yes, I wondered too. I haven’t come across anything since that artilce in mid-August. And Googling doesn’t find anything later, either.
By: trumper - 10th October 2012 at 14:23
Just wondering if anything else had been reported
By: D1566 - 23rd August 2012 at 00:50
… and I am actually Elvis. Uh-huh. 😀
By: TonyT - 22nd August 2012 at 22:40
You know otherwise then?
Yes I do, they found Martin Bormans remains in Berlin, so he definately isn’t buried with any Spitfires in Burma. 😀
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd August 2012 at 21:33
Are they near the Kunlun Mountains? 😉
By: Mark V - 22nd August 2012 at 20:55
Spitfires buried in Burma? With Lord Lucan, Elvis and Martin Borman. Yeah right…..
You know otherwise then?
By: bodchris - 22nd August 2012 at 20:25
Spitfires buried in Burma? With Lord Lucan, Elvis and Martin Borman. Yeah right…..
By: TonyT - 22nd August 2012 at 18:40
If they dig them all up Burma might slip below sea level…
I was looking at an Griffon Engine crate the other week and suggested we chucked some earth on it, took a picture and stuck it on some minor website with a description that went something like… “Fresh from Burma” :D.
Bet it would be in the Daily Nail before the Week was out :p
By: SADSACK - 22nd August 2012 at 17:18
re;
love the idea of “flying them all home” should that not mean in the back of a Herc in crates. Lousy journalism!
By: SMS88 - 22nd August 2012 at 10:41
The original story with around 3 dozen at 2 locations seems the least fanciful given so many years of rumour and clusters of MkXIV serials exported through India with no service records beyond 1945 in the excellent Morgan and Shacklady book.And perhaps some lightly used redundant MkVIII were crated and buried as too good to scrap…….but perhaps the Korea suggestions are a red herring……
Sign In
May 31, 2012 at 5:20 pm