Wargaming.net funding excavation of British World War II fighter planes in Burma ”The Wargaming team shares my passion and excitement for military history and historic preservation”David Cundall.

RAF ground crew in Burma loading 250lb bombs on to loading trolleys at ... But they are also hoping their delicate excavation work will reveal new facts about the Burma Campaign during World War II.

British farmer and businessman David Cundall (left) leads an archaeological excavation team searching for buried World War II Spitfires at an airport in Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. 7.

WW2 People's War Homepage Archive ... Middlesborough and Burma Background to story: Royal Air Force ... In 1939 he enlisted in the RAF reserves and went every week for training at Thornaby airfield.

159 Squadron served as a Bomber, Mine-laying, Reconnaissance and Transport unit during World War II. It was active from July 1942 until June 1946, operating at first in the Middle East during 1942 ...

Burma has signed a deal with a British aviation enthusiast to allow the excavation of a World War II treasure: dozens of Spitfire fighter planes buried by the British almost 70 years ago.

This is the story of Hugh Martin, an RAF mechanic who joined the peacetime service in 1935 and served for every single day of the second world war, seeing combat in both France in 1940 and in the ...