Buried in Burma is a CSI case like no other.The missing person is a machine - the Spitfire fighter.The witnesses are aging veterans of the ‘forgotten war’.The crime scene is a former RAF airfield in the Far East.And the crime, if it took place at all, happened almost seventy-five years ago.
THE FILM
AWARDS
Buried in Burma was an official selection at the London International Cinema Festival on February 8-15th 2020. The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature, Best Director of a Documentary Feature, and the Historical Education Award. Buried in Burma was awarded Best Director of a Documentary Feature.
Buried in Burma is the story of a British potato farmer’s quixotic quest to dig up a squadron of Spitfire aircraft he believes were buried at the end of WWII. Armed with a high-tech survey which shows mysterious shapes under the sunbaked surface of Yangon International Airport, David’s 2013 expedition is equipped with state of the art JCB excavators, supported by a crack team of archaeologists, and funded by international computer gaming company Wargaming.
THE BOOK
The Buried Spitfires of Burma is the biography of a modern legend, born in the chaos of August and September 1945, when Japanese forces in the Burma theater finally surrender. Although the War was over, war material continued to arrive in southeast Asia for many months, since the supply chain stretched all the way back to the UK and ships already underway continued to arrive well into 1946.