ORIGINAL: Me410

The date reported as when they were buried seems messed up.
The Japanese invaded Burma in Dec 1941, Rangoon fell in Mar 1942, the British were driven back into India.

These Mk2,s ( if this is true ) would have been buried between dec 1941 and the spring of 1942 as the British retreated. That would make some sense, although a retreating army usually burns and destroys any weapons it cant take with them. If they had the time to bury these then that would make sense as they hope to reuse them. But the Japanese were in Burma till the end of the War, aug 1945.

At that time there was no value in obsolete prop driven fighters, most went to the scrap metal dealers. So I can see the reason nobody would see the worth in digging them back up then. Now of course the collector value is huge.

But I suspect this story alittle.

Tom