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SharpeXB

11-14-2011 06:06 PM

Spitfire redux: The WWII guns firing after 70 years buried in peat

An excavation at the site of a 1941 Spitfire crash in a bog in the Irish Republic uncovered huge, remarkably preserved chunks of plane and six Browning machine guns. After 70 years buried in peat could they be made to fire? They certainly could, writes Dan Snow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15652440

bw_wolverine

11-14-2011 06:20 PM

Already posted (in fact, this post is probably the one that pushed it off the front page), but it's good. Wonderful sound from those guns, hm?

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