Spitfire guns fire after 70 years

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Well if the P-38 Glacia Girl is valued at considerably more than 2 million the discovery of those Spitfires will be a great thing I wonder if Britain still has ownership of them considering they were never used...........be great to see them in the air again if possible.............

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[earlwb]

That is great. They got to try one out and fire a belt of ammo through it. I like the history and story that some guns can tell about things that were going on way back then.

Didn't they use a number of the aircraft machine guns with the British Commando teams "Long Range Desert Group", in North Africa during WWII when they were fighting the Germans. If I remember right the commandos used various vehicles to travel across the desert to raid German supply dumps and depots behind the enemy lines. But they used whatever they could get for machine guns, and weapons from various aircraft they salvaged in the desert. They did a American TV show series called the "Rat Patrol" based on the them too,

[Peter Laidler]

My bet regarding these crated Spitfires still stands don't forget...........

[Paul S.]

I have to say that I am with Peter on this one. Seeing is believing. Until then . . .

[CINDERS]

Shall we put that in the Nessie basket then!

[muffett.2008]

To late for the Nessie basket Cinders, they found her, a prop from a '50's film........don't you watch television?

[CINDERS]

Yes I saw that one Muffet quite a skillful piece of picture taking with nothing to scale it off of.........besides I was busy with my crayons my wife hid from me some of us never grow up ooops!

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Do you know if the camera got tired after its run into the ground! (sorry sometimes I am just an irriot.)