Spitfires

[Ivan Cloherty]

Jim it's for the geographically challenged like William Vague who don't know the difference between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans

[Tony Wilding]

Thanks very much Jim, i really am keen to know the condition of them after all these years, am sure they can be restored, or maybe most of them, amazing what is hidden in the ground, must be quite a story in itself how they were found. and tracked down. please keep any new info , best wishes, Tony W.

[happy daze john in oz]

There was an article on TV last night here in Oz about them. The area is too wet just now for anyone to go in and bring them out. Work is anticipated to begin in late January. The plan is to erturn them to the RAF in UK as they are still egistered as the rightful owners.

[Jim Brady]

BURMA OR MYANMAR.
Tonight an advert on the TV for a childrens charity was for the children of Burma,so is it Burma or Myanmar.Apparently the UN refer to the country as Myanmar defaulting to the nomenclature wishes of the country's rulers,but the United States and the United Kingdom do not recognize the junta and thus still call the country Burma.I suppose the media still use the name Burma as it is more easily recognised same as Rangoon as opposed to Yangon.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[John Pruden]

there is still loads of ww11 stuf in the lybian desert from rommels days the dry weather has preserved them still mines every were.jp

[Captain Kong]

BURMA OR MYANMAR
They are all doing that Jim, Bombay- Mumbai. Madras- Chenai, Gold Coast- Ghana
Ceylon- Sri Lanka
I think it is their way of getting rid of British influence
Brian.

[Tony Wilding]

they almost have here allready, some parts completely, little by little, history repeats itself.

[Glenn Baker]

Mmm I think Bombay will always be Bombay to me, it ranked amongst the most filthy Citys in the World, I said to someone the other day after i smelt after shave lotion , i said you smell like a Bombay Hooker.

[Lou Barron]

Yes Glen i quiet agree about Bombay in 1942 it was one of the dirtess and stinking places that i had been to and i think that everyone would know abouut Grant Road

[Ivan Cloherty]

Mmm I think Bombay will always be Bombay to me, it ranked amongst the most filthy Citys in the World, I said to someone the other day after i smelt after shave lotion , i said you smell like a Bombay Hooker.

Only beaten by Calcutta Glenn, the 5 a.m. body cart still going around the street every morning even in the 80/90's, collecting all those who had passed on during the night. What's the connection with Spitfires, well my Indian agent had been a spitfire mechanic during the war.