Preserved Spitfire unearthed & the guns could still be fired!

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11-10-2011, 08:30 AM

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Preserved Spitfire unearthed & the guns could still be fired!

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

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