Is it within this?

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?137485-Seen-On-Ebay-(2016)&highlight=Seen+on+Ebay

Thank you, Malcolmtent!

Lighten up, everyone, Malcolmtent included. OK, Malcolmteepee, I’ll grant you a free pass to rip me, and I won’t respond, except to acknowledge. But don’t let your blood pressure soar over this minor post…too much.

Dona nobis pacem Matt, actually didn’t even register the slightest blip on my blood pressure reading – it’s probably too knackered like the rest of me 🙂 . Another war pic I like, again for the real aircraft, albeit many modified T6s, is Tora, Tora, Tora. I’m in that growing group of properly termed old farts who can’t quite suspend disbelief where CGI is concerned. I liked Piece of Cake and, I’ve forgotten the title, the series based on a WW1 RFC squadron. But they technically are TV shows rather than films.

Oh dear – so we have yet another surreptitious attempt at dragging us back to the Far Eastern mud. Mark12 might have something of value to add if he … well had something of value to add, or easier still simply stuck to the topic of what military experts think are the best war movies. My favourites are equally The Cruel Sea and Battle of Britain. The first for the sheer starkness of its depiction and second for the dialogue and aircraft.

As I see it there is no reason why anyone with hard news of these elusive Spitfires being found, not just rehashing the conjecture about the possibility of their existence, can post that any time they like.

From the fact that neither did David Cundall we can only assume that he, quite reasonably, assumed the fact the Japanese had started to dig some ‘underground’ hangars at an earlier time had no great relevance to tales of pristine, crated Spitfires in holes dug by Seabees during 1945?

Moggy

Well put – that was the conclusion I came to.

A further question concerns the accuracy of the wartime assessments of the reconnaissance photos – just because an analysis of a recon pic suggests that that was what was happening doesn’t actually mean that it was. As ever I remain sceptical – hope springs eternal and all that upbeat drivel but it’s actual airframes that count.

Believe it when I see it – still it probably sells newspapers or online subscriptions. So it’s good for some.

Beermat’s question about the effectiveness of wartime advertising for manufacturers whose production would be pretty much already consumed by wartime government contracts raises an interesting point. Was the advertising an effort to show the patriotism of the advertiser, a genuine effort to seek new customers or perhaps just a part of the desire to keep their names in the private consumers’ eye until peace was restored? I know it was prevalent in US magazines of the period but did similar magazines produced in Axis countries have the same sorts of apparently redundant advertisements?

I wonder what is so important that they could not await an appropriate vehicle?

They are obviously the emergency team who are tasked with consoling a Kestrel that has its nose out of joint over some personal issue.