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Hope Fades in Burma Search for Buried Spitfires
RANGOON — A quest to unearth dozens of British Spitfire aircraft thought to be buried in Burma looks likely to come to an unsuccessful end in October, with monsoon rains hampering excavation efforts as the two-year search...
Gun camera footage from my uncle (father's brother). He flew with 456 Squadron in Beaufighters and then Mosquitoes before being repatriated with TB.
First image is shots from another plane.... the rest from my uncle. In photo 5, the black dot near the top, left of centre... is a cannon...
I spend a bit of time in Laos and the accepted wisdom there is that 30% of the ordnance didn't explode. Given the high number of cluster bombs in that lot, it is accepted that there are 80 million unexploded devices in the country. Less than 2% of the country has been cleared. On one trip, I...
Great photo. My uncle flew Beaufighters and then the Mosquito. He told a good tale of going up in a Beau with a P-38 that had just ferried in to the UK from the US. He showed the P-38 that they didn't turn as well as they thought they did at low altitude.
My understanding, based on what my uncle wrote in his autobiography (which I loaned out and haven't got back yet)... he was a Beaufighter / Mosquito pilot - and he did a course at RR as he was being proposed for test flying duties prior to being invalided out with TB.... was that the Rolls...