HappyDave
2013-03-04, 07:55 AM
How exciting is this find of a cache of Spitfires found in Myanmar in perfect condition. This reminds me of the following.
I had an old friend in SE Queensland, now deceased. One day over a few beers, he told me that as a teenager he was exempt from military service due to a weak heart. So the Americans trained him to drive a bulldozer, he told me that at the end of the war he helped dig a large pit near the airfield he was working on. They then put a lot of new aircraft still in their crates into the pit and buried them under about 10 ft of soil. We were going to go and have a look for them one day, but never got around to it, i was always too busy. He died in his 80.s ( weak heart ! lololol)
He told me that the airfield was near to Toowoomba, i think he said Cecil Plains, dont know wether there was a yank airfield there during the war or not.
DL.
I had an old friend in SE Queensland, now deceased. One day over a few beers, he told me that as a teenager he was exempt from military service due to a weak heart. So the Americans trained him to drive a bulldozer, he told me that at the end of the war he helped dig a large pit near the airfield he was working on. They then put a lot of new aircraft still in their crates into the pit and buried them under about 10 ft of soil. We were going to go and have a look for them one day, but never got around to it, i was always too busy. He died in his 80.s ( weak heart ! lololol)
He told me that the airfield was near to Toowoomba, i think he said Cecil Plains, dont know wether there was a yank airfield there during the war or not.
DL.