The search for buried Spitfires goes live with Clemenger BBDO Melbourne Creative Group head James Carter + director Karl von Moller

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne Creative Group head James Carter and commercials director Karl von Moller are about to embark on the next stage of their ‘Broken Wings‘ documentary.

The pair have been researching the extraordinary story of hidden RAAF Spitfires in Queensland at the end of World War II and are now ready to start the physical search in order to complete their documentary, ‘Broken Wings’.

Broken Wings is about the pair’s quest to unearth a number of Spitfire aircraft believed to have been buried in and around the small Queensland township of Oakey at the end of World War II. Spitfires are credited with turning the tide of World War II’s most decisive air battle, the Battle of Britain, and played a significant role in the D-Day invasion. There are only 50 airworthy Spitfires left in the world today.

Says James Carter regarding the missing planes becoming folklore in the town: “In 2000, we heard some incredible stories about Spitfire aircraft buried in the ground near Oakey. The more we researched, the more we felt the story would make a remarkable and exciting documentary.”

The pair have turned to crowdfunding website Pozible to raise the money to hire the sophisticated ground penetrating radar equipment necessary to search underground sites in and around Oakey and complete their documentary.

Continues Carter: “This has been a labour of love for us thus far. Now we need some investment to take all our research, interviews, mapping and analysis to the next level. Crowdfunding lets people be a part of Broken Wings for as little as $10.”

If Carter and von Moller are successful in their hunt for the missing Spitfires, the first of which will be donated to the Oakey Museum of Australian Army Flying.