1941 Spitfire Wreck Resurrection

• Oct 17, 2012

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Matt308

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Great little video on pulling a Spitfire .30BMG from wreckage in a peat bog, cleaning the machine gun up and she still works!!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PjLpqWFFEo

 

• Oct 17, 2012

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Gnomey

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Cool video! Thanks for sharing.

Always impressive how well things are preserved in peat bogs.

 

• Oct 17, 2012

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Crimea_River

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Saw this on the telly a while back on History.

 

• Oct 18, 2012

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Great post Matt thanks!

Interesting she went down in Ireland.

 

• Oct 18, 2012

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Yep.. I echo the Evan's post.