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Their were claims in EAA’s Sport Aviation about 15 or 20 years ago of up to 1000 P51’s burried on an Island and they needed other to concurr with the person claiming it. It never went any further...

There were also supposed to be bunkers under Berlin that were loaded with late-war Luftwaffe aircraft. Allegedly the bunkers were sealed and bulldozed in. Big story in the aviation world a few years back, nothing else ever came of it.

There were also stories about a divisions-worth of armor and vehicles that Patton hid out in the US Desert Southwest, to be used in the event of a German invasion from Mexico (along the lines of the Zimmerman telegram being implemented 25 years late).

Then there's the legendary British "Strategic Reserve" of early/mid-20th Century steam engines sealed in old railroad tunnels, to be used in the event of a war that cripples the oil transport industry.

When the Americans retreated before Burgoyne`s advance in 1777, they abandoned some forts with 400 cannon, but had previously hidden the powder in concealed underground bunkers far from the forts. Burgoyne`s inventories tell of the missing powder. One of his Tory spies told him of the powder buried elsewhere but only gave him a 2 mile radius of the location. These powder bunkers were apparently forgotten, do not appear in any records after that. They appear to be still there. They also hid uniforms and muskets in several caves; one cave was discovered by local boys in 1952 with muskets and decayed uniforms. One hidden musket with bayonet was discovered by my nephew 1/4 mile from one of the caves.

Burgoyne`s paymaster`s ship, loaded with 10,000 gold coins to pay the German rear guard echelons in Vermont and NY sailed late from Canada down Lake Champlain, failed to meet the rear guards because of American ambushes on the latter. The paymaster sunk the ship in a river near Whitehall, NY -

It was discovered by a civil engineer doing a land survey in 1902 who noticed that the river`s course had changed and exposed the riverbed with the ship. He recovered the treasure chest and snuck it into a bank vault in Vermont coz NY State would have claimed it. I do not know what happened to it after that.