JCB diggers, made in Staffordshire, will help to recover 30 Spitfire warplanes believed to be buried in Burma – and the aircraft were designed by one of the county’s most famous sons.
The unassembled planes are thought to have been hidden in the ground by US engineers across three sites as World War II ended. A bid to excavate four crates thought to contain more than 30 of the Spitfires is about to begin at Rangoon International Airport. JCB is providing a 20-tonne JS200 tracked excavator, a…
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