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Has anyone else ever come across the following couple of WWII stories? Both were relayed to me by my Dad and I haven't come across anything similar in the UK.
Apparently, my Grandad used to tell stories of how at the end of WWII, a whole bunch of Spitfires which had just rolled off the production line were put in storage as the war had ended, suggesting there's an underground hangar somewhere in the Midlands stuffed with unused planes. I find it hard to believe that any dedicated historians haven't sought to dig them up, as surely it would be documented, and I wonder why they were put away rather than put to use - maybe the death toll was such that there were not enough people to fly them? I'd be interested if any similar stories have been reported - my Grandad used to live in the Tamworth area nr. Birmingham which must be the approximate location for him to know about it. On the other hand, it could just be another FOAF story...
The second story is that my Dad used to work with a man who claimed to be in a secret British military unit that was tasked with following the trail of "Hitler's Gold" at the end of the war. Apparently the trail was followed all the way to North Africa before it was lost, and never found again. Again, it could be BS, or chasing shadows as much has turned up in Swiss bank accounts. Seeing a documentary the other week about how a group of Nazi officers sank a chest of mysterious papers in a remote Austrian lake as the Allies closed in reminded me of the story... anyone else heard anything like this...?
Apparently, my Grandad used to tell stories of how at the end of WWII, a whole bunch of Spitfires which had just rolled off the production line were put in storage as the war had ended, suggesting there's an underground hangar somewhere in the Midlands stuffed with unused planes. I find it hard to believe that any dedicated historians haven't sought to dig them up, as surely it would be documented, and I wonder why they were put away rather than put to use - maybe the death toll was such that there were not enough people to fly them? I'd be interested if any similar stories have been reported - my Grandad used to live in the Tamworth area nr. Birmingham which must be the approximate location for him to know about it. On the other hand, it could just be another FOAF story...
The second story is that my Dad used to work with a man who claimed to be in a secret British military unit that was tasked with following the trail of "Hitler's Gold" at the end of the war. Apparently the trail was followed all the way to North Africa before it was lost, and never found again. Again, it could be BS, or chasing shadows as much has turned up in Swiss bank accounts. Seeing a documentary the other week about how a group of Nazi officers sank a chest of mysterious papers in a remote Austrian lake as the Allies closed in reminded me of the story... anyone else heard anything like this...?