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Originally Posted by Mo_Gearhead
What I find amazing is how quickly it was covered in sand as to become un- noticed by the public? Unless it was partly submerged in the water?
I can see how this might happen in a remote desert somewhere, winds, shifting sands, no one around ...but a beach? Just tides...to swallow a large plane??
Sounds strange to me.
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This is just up the road from my parents house....there's a lot of stuff lying around Wales from WWII . There's actually a vast cave network that's full of American surplace that is still maintained in working order under the agreement by GB and the USA from the war...jeeps, trucks, motorcycles, tanks etc.
The reason that the plane was "lost" is that the beaches and the miles around them were closed for the duration of the war and for some time afterwards. The plane was striped of it's guns after it was decided that it was not salvageable and sat at the water's edge, out of the public's eye, for years before getting buried by the sand and tide.