Spitfire's Gun Still Fires

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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A Browning machine gun, part of a downed Spitfire that was buried in peat after it crashed to earth in Donegal in 1941. 

Hundreds of bullets were found alongside the gun that fired easily despite its 70 years mired in an Irish peat bog.