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#1 User is offline   Horch 

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Posted June 27, 2008 - 02:29 PM

This tank came out of a river near Petersburg. It is a mod BT. It had narrow tracks and they could be removed to drive on the rubber rimmed wheels. It was only good for better than average roads. I guess this one didn't do to well in the water. Interesting.

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Posted July 19, 2008 - 07:06 PM

Well, Heck. I thought it was interesting. Still do. I wish I were there.

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Posted July 19, 2008 - 11:22 PM

That should make for an interesting restoration!
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Posted July 20, 2008 - 03:04 PM

From some digs in western Russia.

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Posted August 17, 2008 - 09:11 AM

I remember watching an episode of 'Battlefield Detectives' or similar show...unsure which one but they were researching the 'Charge of the Light Brigade' from the Crimean War. They sent a team to the site of the battle with metal detectors but there was so much stuff like the pieces in the photos above, still on the surface, that the metal detectors were useless.
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Posted August 17, 2008 - 09:13 AM

I wonder what they found when they cracked open that Stug.
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Posted August 17, 2008 - 01:42 PM

Geek44 said:

I remember watching an episode of 'Battlefield Detectives' or similar show...unsure which one but they were researching the 'Charge of the Light Brigade' from the Crimean War. They sent a team to the site of the battle with metal detectors but there was so much stuff like the pieces in the photos above, still on the surface, that the metal detectors were useless.


Yea,I think I may have seen that also. I think they had some problems with other battles on or near the site. Lots a stuff.

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Posted August 17, 2008 - 01:44 PM

Geek44 said:

I wonder what they found when they cracked open that Stug.


The imagination is a wonderful thing. Those who dig up and find that stuff work hard. But it's worth it. Love to be there. Like you stated, I wonder???

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Posted August 18, 2008 - 07:05 AM

There isn't anything nearly so spectacular to be found around these parts. I know there's a crashed B-24 on Hinchinbrook Island that's still there but by now it looks like a pile of old Coke cans I suspect. Up in Darwin, there's a cliff down to a beach that was used as a dumping area for all kinds of junk during WW2. Much of the stuff is still there and the only thing I thought I could positively identify was an almost complete Allison engine (Australia used P-40s among other types) with serial still readable. There are truck differentials and transmissions, tyres and lots of oil. Truth is that all the 'good' stuff has already been found and either preserved or restored or, just left in the paddock to rot. Finding a complete Stug. is a very spectacular time capsule. Great pics...I only happened on this thread last night for the first time. Thanks for posting 'em. :anim_grenade:
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Posted August 18, 2008 - 09:11 AM

If you have a metal detector you'd be surprised at what you can find. It sounds as if you actually do have a lot to check out. It's well worth the time.

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Posted August 18, 2008 - 10:02 AM

I live in the south-east corner...about as far from any WW2 action as it's possible to get. Having said that, a friend and I once hired a metal detector and went prospecting. If beer bottle caps were worth anything we'd both be rich. :anim_grenade:
I imagine that there'd be more action further north WW2-wise...down here it's just gold and bottle tops. We had fun though.
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Posted August 29, 2008 - 06:33 AM

Maaaan....I love looking at those Russian dig photos. I am lucky enough to live in an area that saw lots of marching by both Union and Confed soldiers..and when I was a kid, metal detecting, I once recovered a US cartridge box plate, about 100 yards from where my current house sits. But that's been the extent of my relic hunting for the most part.

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Posted May 15, 2009 - 08:09 PM

There are a few sites on the web just dedicated to these finding "clubs". Quite a few tanks have been found and in Bulgaria there was a sensational story about some WWII German tanks that had been dug up and then sold. They had been used a bunkers at one time. There was a pic on the web where they had about 14 tank hulls in a compound.
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Posted May 16, 2009 - 10:39 AM

sniper1shot said:

Quite a few tanks have been found and in Bulgaria there was a sensational story about some WWII German tanks that had been dug up and then sold. They had been used a bunkers at one time. There was a pic on the web where they had about 14 tank hulls in a compound.



I think these may be the tank/bunkers you're talking about:

Detektory kovù - Tanky - Bulharsko – Detektor web.cz

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Posted November 29, 2009 - 01:06 PM

man... I wish someone would find a sunk JS-2 or JS-3.

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