I would think, that if anything was buried,and certainly some stuff was, even in an intact state, after 60 yrs in the dirt it would be nothing more than a collection of scrap – particularly seeing bulldozers would usually be involved. They certainly didn’t bury stuff carefully by hand!
The Greenland P38 & B17 certainly showed what happened when covered by 100 ft of ice
In the Pacific, the favourite method of disposal was to tip them in the sea, the deeper the better – with similarly corrosive results to the metal, although they do keep their shape a bit better from the hulks that have been found.
I think the best chances of success are out in the wops – in Canada,Scandinavia, Russia, perhaps more stuff in freshwater lakes as has been found fruitful over the last few years. Barns, etc are still a possibility – a complete CKD Oxford was found in a barn in NZ a few yrs ago – painstakingly disassembled, but virtually complete. Does anyone local know how the reassembly is going?
But….who knows…..anything is possible, even if not probable!
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