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7 hours ago, Falaise said:

 Sorry my english is very bad
no Hister have right  my wyfe found human remains in the garden
that can seem weird but watch this picture of the way in front of my house in 1944 and you understand
and  the  first  picture   show an other discovery

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man looks like you live in West Virginia.  Just put those up on cinder blocks :D I used to live on the east coast in Virginia.  W Virginia was/is considered "hillbilly country".  Lot of poverty and a tendency to have old rusting run down vehicles on your property.  Oddly enough I now live in San Jose CA and my next door neighbor has a car rusting away in the drive adjacent to my property.... sigh.  Hillbilly Burke

 

Fortunately no unexploded ordinance or human remains... that I know of.

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Falaise,

Yours is one of, if not the, most astounding post string I've seen on the CM Forums since I joined in January 2000. What most of us have read about and some studied, you have walked and (with your wife) unearthed. To live in a house outside of which unimaginable carnage occurred recently enough that there are those who could tell the tale; to grow up hearing from the direct experiencers what it was like puts a face on history the likes of which few here or in general will ever see for themselves. Seven kinds of cool you are a museum guide. I know there are huge areas in which UXO keeps turning up, and I have a favorite story (not fun for the person involved) in which a Belgian farmer cut down an old tree for some reason and, after sweating up a storm to do so,  sat on the stump to rest. Next thing he knows, his rear is on fire and blistered. The place was the heavily fought over Ypres, Beligium of WW I fame/notoriety, and his sweat had released mustard gas which had soaked into the wood back then as a result of one or more such attacks in which the tree was a participant of sorts! Am PMing you some info on a Falaise pub you may not have seen. Or you might have severa of it alreadyl!  Thanks much for sharing your amazing story with us. In closing, I think that's a CW 2" mortar bomb. Here's one just like yours recovered in England.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/9132523.Unexploded_WW2_bomb_discovered_in_Dorchester/

But the slam dunk is here, which shows all of the 2" mortar projectiles.

http://visualcollector.com/VisualCollectorLinks/MortarsMines.htm

 Regards,

John Kettler

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I PMed Falaise to let him have first crack at this, which was one of the books which launched his passion, as a child, for Falaise research. He's not pnly got a copy, but informs me he sold them at the museum for years.

After the Battle Number 8
The Battle of the Falaise Pocket

https://www.amazon.com/After-Battle-Number-Falaise-Pocket/dp/B00IKMHBO8

He recommends Paul Latawski's book, Falaise Pocket, a work is "full of detail and sticks to the Kampgruppe Engel Campaign".

https://www.amazon.com/Falaise-Pocket-Paul-Latawski/dp/0750930144/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517718003&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3APaul+Latawski&dpID=51H263PuMJL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

He also kindly provided the URL for the museum. His connection with it is special, but it's up to him to characterize it or not as he chooses.

http://www.memorial-montormel.org

Regards,

John Kettler

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