The [Burma] Project Spitfire Blog

[Noha307]

Since the Burma project inevitably came up on the Boxed, Buried Birmingham thread, and I've been wanting to post this, I'd figured I'd put two-and-two together and post it there. Then, I thought better of it, and decided to start a new thread. I hope it doesn't look like I'm trying to flood WIX, I just thought the discussions would be better served separate.

This is a blog from the video game company backing the recovery project: http://worldofwarplanes.eu/en/blog/main. It's about as close as you'll get to "the word of God" on the project. It also has some interesting pictures and information on Mr. Cundall's previous efforts on the "Aviation Archaeology" article.

Some interesting notes from the blog:

The Wargaming team decided to fund the venture and produce a documentary film about the recovery efforts.

and:

I tracked down David Cundall’s phone number and rang him up at his farm in Lincolnshire. I would later learn that in the aftermath of the newspaper article’s publication, David was inundated with hundreds of calls from well-wishers, potential buyers, television reporters, rip-off artists and con men, and at least one clairvoyant, so it’s rather surprising I got through to him at all. We had a pleasant conversation, at the end of which I offered to fly him out to San Francisco so we could meet and discuss how Wargaming might help him on his quest. He thought I was another crazy caller until I sent him a plane ticket – first class – to come visit us. David agreed and flew to California on May 15th.

I honestly still can't believe some of the twists this story has taken - and I'm just referring to the funding efforts!

[muddyboots]

It certainly is good documentary fodder. Unless it turns out like Al Capone's tomb...

[shrike]

Even if it does turn out like the vault, just the journey to get there is good docco fodder

[bdk]

Even the Defender documentary made a good subject, albeit a tongue in cheek one.

[Noha307]

As an update, I would like to point out that the blog has added a large number of new articles, on a range of topics from general Burma history to the witnesses of the burial in 1945 to the details of the recovery itself. They even included a passage that, depending on how you look at it, could be directed at us...

But how do you get to the truth behind such a powerful legend almost seventy years after the fact? Particularly when so many people maintain that this legend is true, repeatedly saying as much in the Media and on the Internet and when some are even prepared to back up their passionate belief with evidence drawn from years of documentary research, statements from witnesses, fieldwork and a considerable investment in time and money?