Wodin Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Check this beauty out. What buried for 70 years I suppose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Mud baths help stay young. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCASWILLEN05 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Thought we'ed been spammed here Wodin and Sergei:-) Perhaps I just have a dirty mind :-0 Luke 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethe415 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Pretty amazing. The Russian text states Velikiye Luki (Великие Луки), so somewhere between late 42 and early 43. Wonder how the crew is? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rokko Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 How awesome is that? Even the paintjob is still intact. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigduke6 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 And after 70 years in the muck, the thing still rolls. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Now that AFV was bogged - totally under the mud and upside down. And after 70 years in the muck, the thing still rolls. That was the thing that amazed me to. That and the dog playing in the muddy water:) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boche Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 One can only imagine how it got flipped and then burried under all that! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 How awesome is that? Even the paintjob is still intact. Typical German over-engineering. "Max, this vehicle's coat of paint is not up to standard. The specifications require the paintjob to be thicker!" "But mein Herr, how does it matter, it will likely be destroyed after five minutes in combat..." "How dare you question my orders! If I told you to give it a paint so thick that it will still be there after 70 years at the bottom of a swamp, you will do it!" "...jawohl. Klaus, bring me another 10 barrels of Dunkelgelb!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vencini Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Ooooohhh nice! Like the birth of an orc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Schultz Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Now if my QB StuGs would flip over and sink on swamp tiles when immobilised, then I wouldn't mind bogging so much. ------ Oh, and I had a late '90s Minivan that got its rear drum brakes flooded for a day and then sat for a month ... it had to be dragged screaming from my driveway with the drums rusted tight. My next car will just have to be a StuG. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vark Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Seeing it two thoughts came to mind. a) How small it looked, they seem bigger in photos Wonder what caused the hole, looks like small calibre AT gun, 45mm perhaps? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noob Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Wonder what caused the hole, looks like small calibre AT gun, 45mm perhaps? I agree about the AT gun, and yes, 45mm will do nicely, thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chops Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Interesting video, can one of our Russian members provide a little more insight into this story? That dog sure was having fun and seemed quite interested in the whole process. I wonder if he was picking up the scent of the remains of the crew? What are the two round objects mounted on the back deck? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 What are the two round objects mounted on the back deck? Look like spare road wheels to me. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 The cameraman was so twitchy that it is hard to get a good look at the thing. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wadepm Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I am guessing an anti-tank rifle round. Hole looks too small for a 45mm AT round. The tracks are interesting, they are a lot wider than normal. Looks like they have been extended outboard. Was that a field mod or did they send new tracks out from the factory? Didn't help it get out of the hole though... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethe415 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Looks like these guys restore what they find. I googled translated the site. Check out the photo archive and video links. I'd like to know how they find these things under all that earth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wodin Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 Looks like these guys restore what they find. I googled translated the site. Check out the photo archive and video links. I'd like to know how they find these things under all that earth. Geometric physics I expect. Where they scan the land. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Some old geezer just now remembered the exact location where he had parked that StuG in spring 1942. Next morning he had gone to pick it up but he could only find a lake where he recalled there was a flat field. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steiner14 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Impressive. Any infos about about remnants of crew-members? Typical German over-engineering. Says who? A Russian? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Track-edge extensions: Looks to me like the StG was operating in cold weather when they lost it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarkWGriswold Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 This is AMAZING! I cannot believe that thing survived for so long completely intact. A Polish friend of mine did some searching on the web site and seems to think that they completely repainted it during "restoration". The site isn't all that helpful, so I hope he is mistaken. I would think that it shouldn't be that difficult for someone to pull the serial number from it and see how and when it was lost. Personally, I'd guess that the hit it took had nothing to do with it getting bogged and flipping over. Edit: I don't know if any of you have looked at the other videos posted by this same YouTube user, but it looks like they've pulled out at least three T-34s in a similar manner. Also upside-down. One came out sans turret, but the other looks as complete as the Stug. Still full of main gun ammo and the big round MG ammo drums. Just incredible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I presume it got hit and abandoned during the frozen season (see c3k), then sank into the marsh. A lot of Russia (and Finland) is marsh, rivers and lakes that will carry a tank during the winter. And there are a lot of swamps near Velikiye Luki. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vark Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Track-edge extensions: Looks to me like the StG was operating in cold weather when they lost it. Looks like winterketten, which would fit the location and the date. very similar to this Kubinka veteran http://uwemilitaria.org/2-Track/Stug3/17.html (bottom photo) Perhaps the hit damaged the tank and they pushed it in to stop the Russians recovering it, After all, as Steiner would agree, almost all the German tanks that were lost on the Eastern Front were as a result of being demolished by their crews. Those that were genuinely lost were as a result of inferior manufacture by incompetent Slavic slave-workers unable, or unwilling, to understand complex German equipment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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