But surely it would be easier for them to examine when it’s sat in a museum.

Ali

Yes it would but so what?

A different example but the same point – Captain Scott’s base hut in Antarctica still remains. It is, in my book, worthy of preservation. It would be easy to dismantle and ship it back to a UK museum where far more people would have access to it than now. Yet nobody has. Ask yourself why.

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Steve P

The scrappies were rather efficient in removing the wrecks from the hills near where I live. People who could remove an entire Halifax from 2900ft up a hillside, miles away from a road would have no problem in recovering a Spit from shallow water in Central Scotland. With the state of the economy in 1945, Britain needed all the scrap it could get.

On another note, do we need to recover every piece of Spitfire wreckage that still remains on the hills and under water? People died in many, if not most of these crashes. Why not leave what little remains as memorials?

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Steve P

Could one ask for more?

T J

Free admittance?

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To clarify my point re the CAM Hurries: this was in response to JDK’s RAF Blenheim comment. Don’t think that Fighter Command used many Blenheims in the Battle of the Atlantic. 😀

I’d say that the P-40 must run the Hurricane pretty close, if not overtake it. What about the Aleutian campaign?

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Sweden also had a Hampden. I think that they bought it pre-war though.

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Calculated guess says that the Brisfit above is G-AFHJ (ex. F4587) which was destroyed during WW2.

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Steve P

Edit: sorry Mark, missed your post above.

I did make some brief enquiries but the Loch is looked after by Scottish Natural Heritage and it’s difficult to get any kind craft even a canoe on there. SNH don’t want anyone on there except if they are fishermen and the Loch being Scotlands national trout fishing center is very heavily policed.

I thought that might be the case. On the other hand, SNH, like other government departments, is also very mindful of the need to be seen to be doing something of importance. I would have thought that a survey to find out what is in Loch Leven could be deemed as important. Bringing in gear to recover anything, would be a completely different matter. :diablo:

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Steve P

Alison,

I’ve read about them, most probably in the 56 OTU ORB, of which I have a copy. There is nothing in it about a recovery. The area around Loch Leven was used by that unit for low flying training, and tragically, crashes were frequent.

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