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Posted: 03-06-2003 20:51 Post subject:

Unless they'd misconstrued the events on Alderney, which was evacuated by its civilian population during the war and inhabited by German personnel . . .

Carole

From Tuesday's Scotsman

Posted: 26-07-2003 10:15 Post subject:

The Spitfire story reminds me of something I read a while ago about American GIs burying loads of supplies in, I think, Savernake Forest near Marlborough, Wiltshire, when they were sent home after the end of WWII. Supposedly this included loads of Jeeps. But a check search on Google didn't throw anything up, so I can't verify the story.

The Steam Engines that Inverurie Jones mentions were supposedly stored in Box Tunnel: if you go through the tunnel on a train and look in the right place you can see tracks leading off the main Swindon-Bristol railway line and disappearing through an iron door.... I have a friend who has been in there and he say he never saw any steam trains. What he did see, and why he was there, he isn't telling - Official Secrets Act!

Posted: 28-07-2003 10:05 Post subject:

I worked for a while for a railway maintenance company, and had to sign the OSA. Lots of tunnels have sidings and sub-tunnels built into them, apparently.

Posted: 28-07-2003 16:02 Post subject:

Posted: 07-08-2003 20:15 Post subject:

Nazi warships resurface in Serbia

Posted: 20-08-2003 21:15 Post subject:

For some reason, FT's Breaking News has given the Scotsman link for buried a/c in Berlin (see Niles' post above) again today - a month late!

Did they think we wouldn't notice? roll eyes (sarcastic)

I knew I saw something like this recently: here is a story from the New Scotsman about Nazi aircraft and bombs being buried under an East Berlin airport used by 2 million people a year:

Link to Buried Airplane Story

Second Link to New Scotsman article

If this is true, all I can say is "Oy, gevalt!" Buried "treasure" with booby-traps worthy of an Indiana Jones movie. Come to think of it, great ending scene for a sequel: blow up a massive European airport complex after Indiana Jones finds the Nazi Hoard containing Ekekiel's Wheel (a giant alien mothership).

Copyright on this idea asserted by littleblackduck, August 21, 2003. Mr. Beatty can contact me via the Fortean Times webmaster. I'll keep an eye ope' for those buckets of Hollywood gelt.

Posted: 19-09-2003 20:51 Post subject:

The story about low river levels in the Danube, which I posted above over a month ago, has finally reached the BBC!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3122128.stm

Very Happy

Posted: 22-09-2003 07:56 Post subject:

Whilst in the RAF, I did three "tours" (nine years) at RAF Gutersloh in Germany. The Yanks took the airfield during the last push at the end of the war, and much of the German equipment was just buried where it stood.

Once, while working in the Hydraulic Bay, I was idly looking out of the window at a german workman who was digging a trench beneath it, when he pulled out a machine gun complete with tripod and belted ammunition! Occaisionally, an unexploded bomb or a cache of explosive material would be unearthed, which had to be destroyed by a controlled explosion.

Interestingly, the Luftwaffe airfield at Gutersloh could be flooded, giving it the appearance of a lake to allied spotters - sneaky or what?

Also, whilst on the subject of Gutersloh, a room in the Officers Mess has a trick ceiling. at the press of a button, one of the wooden ceiling beams falls down at an alarming angle. Apparantly, this was installed by Hermann Goering, who was an incorrageable practical joker, and would activate it whilst chatting to people in his office.

Posted: 25-05-2004 09:56 Post subject:

There is an area of Chilbolton Down in Hampshire near where my parents used to live that has actually been known as Spitfire Dump since the war. The area was used by the Allies, and the remains of buildings and concrete runways still exist there. The story goes that when the US troops pulled out, all the leftover equipment ect. was used as backfill for the large empty underground aviation fuel tanks, including Jeeps and Harley's, as it was considered uneconomical to ship them back. If it's true, I expect anything would have been ruined by groundwater years ago. It would seem to be a pretty good example for anyone who wanted to prove the veracity of the UL, though.

Here's an arial photo, where the runways can be clearly seen.
Multimap arial photo- Spitfire Dump, Chilbolton

And here is is on the map.
It's the green area around the parking symbol.
Spitfire Dump on Multimap

Posted: 30-05-2004 15:21 Post subject:

Hurrah, a chance to add to one of our more intersting threads. Not quite buried, and a hurricine not a spitfire, but interesting nonetheless.

Posted: 30-05-2004 23:13 Post subject:

all the d day hoha reminds me of a story told me but and old guy. He was a kid in Falmouth in the war and saw the Americans loading up trucks , tanks, jeeps etc on to LCT's (landing craft tank).. he said the morning they departed they tried each vehicul on board the boat...and if they didnt start forst time, just pushed them straight in the bay, to reload something more reliable!.... rather funny too that everyone knew the date of D-day here...one day every road and field was coverd in stuff the next it was gon.

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Posted: 01-06-2004 12:32 Post subject: