I seem to remember reading about buried Spitfires in Burma some 20 years ago but can't remember where I read it.

Mark P.

its much harder to put them back together if you blow them up

Quite – you don't want the enemy to be able to assemble them!

Russell.

If they were like the Americans at the end of the Pacific war, they would have taken them out to sea, and dumped them over the side, there are quite a few dive sites around the Pacific Islands, where there are aircraft, trucks and Jeeps, all sorts of hardware. Some of it proberbly got salvaged as scrap metal, and some was just salvaged. A lot of the stuff ended its days in NZ. Ian S C

The military have never been shy about destroying surplus assets. In many cases it would have been part of the original contract. For instance, when the Vampires/Venoms were being phased out, due to obsolescence, the contract required that the remaining aircraft, of the number contracted for, had to be modified up to front line standard, test flown and THEN had a buzz saw put through them before going to the scrappy! While it would have been different during active wartime conditions, I would have thought that the local commanders would have taken the simplest measures to avoid them going to the enemy, by destroying them. If offered shares in a recovery programme, I think the prospectus would go into the 'Brooklyn Bridge for sale" folder.

They were buried about three years after the end of hostilities.

Neil

It would be great if they found atleast 1

Bob

Boiler with all due respect what has your comment to do with finding (hopefully) any Spit's

Bob