Burma's buried Spitfires: the inside story of one man's obsession

Now, however, he hopes he is standing on the brink of one of the greatest
wartime discoveries in recent memory – three carefully buried squadrons of
factory-fresh, "lost" Second World War Spitfires.

It is Cundall's Burmese partners in this venture who have insisted this
treasure hunt starts with the excavation site being blessed. No doubt
Cundall is hoping for some divine providence himself. For he is by no means
a seasoned archaeologist. Instead, the aviation enthusiast is more usually
found digging the earth in his farm near Scunthorpe, in a little-visited
pocket of the Lincolnshire flatlands.

Yet his job has never got in the way of his passion, as he explains when I
first meet him,

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