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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:19:45 PM EDT
Buried in the original crates!
Can I get one from the CMP?? I only want one, its my favorite aircraft! Spitfires! 
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:22:29 PM EDT
[#1]
dupe, but awesome dupe.
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:23:19 PM EDT
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O M G !
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:25:20 PM EDT
[#3]
How sweet is that!
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:26:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:26:28 PM EDT
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Words cannot begin to describe how awesome it will be if those can all be made airworthy.
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:26:52 PM EDT
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Here's hoping they get em out.
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:33:49 PM EDT
[#7]
Cool if true but this has the urban legend smell about it.
Back in the 60's there was always two stories going around school (1) Supposedly there was a year or two old Corvette that you could get for $50.00. Supposedly someone committed suicide in it and was dead inside for a month. (2) Supposedly someone had a friend whose dad knew about a sunken freighter full of Indian motorcycles from the war. All cosmoleaned and would be available as soon as the ship was salvaged. About $50.00 each I would think that in a 3rd world country buried Spitfires would have attracted metal scrappers a very long time ago. |
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:38:00 PM EDT
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US Spitfire for the win! Oh and dupe posters, FOAD, go rain on your own parade. |
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:39:38 PM EDT
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Quoted: http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Spitfire/MkVb-USAAF-31FG309FS-WZ-Y/images/1-MkVb-USAAF-31FG309FS-WZ-Y-BM6-Tunesia-1942-02.jpg US Spitfire for the win! Those guys absolutely hated being forced to switch from the Spitfire to the P-47 Thunderbolt. ETA: Looks like the guys in that particular photo might have been switched to Mustangs, which was a much less painful trade. But I do remember reading that some Spitfire units were forced to trade them in for Thunderbolts. |
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:42:58 PM EDT
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USAAF used Spitfires for recce missions.
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:45:29 PM EDT
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Quoted: USAAF used Spitfires for recce missions. They saw air-to-air combat, too: http://spitfiresite.com/2010/04/uncle-sams-spitfires.html |
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:49:22 PM EDT
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O M G !
its what the 4th dupe in 24 hrs? |
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:50:33 PM EDT
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There are tons of urban legends in the war bird community. Crated Corsairs sitting in farmer's barn, stacks of Pratt 2800's gathering dust in an unknown warehouse, etc. You name the plane and somewhere someone knows of a perfect example carefully hidden away for the last 60 years.
Believe it when and only when you see it. |
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:51:59 PM EDT
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i read the thread about the supposed rumor but now they seem to have been found...pretty awesome cant wait to see these puppies. Better be at least an hour episode on go or some such
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:52:00 PM EDT
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We have a Spitfire on static display at my base. One of my favorite WW2 aircraft.
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:53:11 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Buried in the original crates! Can I get one from the CMP?? I only want one, its my favorite aircraft! Spitfires! http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4-yBZr5goc4/TPaJvLsL2KI/AAAAAAAAAXk/9DWX6v3jDA4/s1600/Spitfire_-_3.jpg Really, I wont be greedy, I will only take one also. |
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:54:31 PM EDT
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Spitfire floatplane? Yes, tried as a test and cancelled, hmmmm perhaps not such a nimble fighter with the floats????
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:55:59 PM EDT
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Way cool if true.
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Posted: 4/16/2012 12:57:11 PM EDT
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Quoted: Spitfire floatplane? Yes, tried as a test and cancelled, hmmmm perhaps not such a nimble fighter with the floats???? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8DAL7gPYBiM/TSFjR3X0LHI/AAAAAAAAAr8/tMxxOUv1n3Y/s1600/SpitFloatplane.jpg The Japanese did the same thing with the Zero; it actually did see service:  |
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Posted: 4/16/2012 1:00:54 PM EDT
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Quoted:
http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Spitfire/MkVb-USAAF-31FG309FS-WZ-Y/images/1-MkVb-USAAF-31FG309FS-WZ-Y-BM6-Tunesia-1942-02.jpg US Spitfire for the win! Oh and dupe posters, FOAD, go rain on your own parade. I had a pic somewhere of a Zero in British markings |
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Posted: 4/16/2012 1:11:15 PM EDT
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I think a very strong case can be made that those belong to Patricia Knatchbull. Give her her airplanes back
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Posted: 4/16/2012 1:18:44 PM EDT
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"In Crates" Ha!... Ok.
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Posted: 4/16/2012 1:20:48 PM EDT
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"In Crates" Ha!... Ok. 
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Posted: 4/16/2012 1:23:28 PM EDT
[#24]
Well, to be precise, they're not brand new, they're LNIC = Like New In Crate.
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Posted: 4/16/2012 1:25:54 PM EDT
[#25]
Are these like the USGI Jeeps in crates . . . all packed in cosmoline ?
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Posted: 4/16/2012 1:28:15 PM EDT
[#26]
Blimey –– Crates in crates
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Posted: 4/16/2012 1:38:19 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Well, to be precise, they're not brand new, they're LNIC = Like New In Crate.
 
And now, Desert Spitires! 
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