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omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 736 dot AC 219 certificate number 34112 the Lost Spitfires of Burma.

So how long has it been since we did a episode on World War II aircraft?

I think the usual gap on this show is about a week.

A week. Yeah, I think it's been a week and a half at least.

So I was feeling yeah you could you could

sense a disturbance in the force yeah a dearth of of World War II aircraft

shows you were Jonesing I this is maybe my favorite title of any omnibus.

The Lost Spitfires of Burma.

Yes.

Sounds like, you know, it's one of those,'s a young Indiana Jones chronicles episode.

Well you know Burma slash Myanmar is in the news again because there was just recently a

military coup d'etat.

Myanmar has been since it's, I guess, what would you call,

the end of colonialism when when Burma left the

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